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I remember looking in the BBC archives for stories of the first arrivals of South Asians in the postwar years, and being surprised at how little programming had been made documenting the experiences of my parents’ generation. That was well over 10 years ago now. From then on, I began…
To have defended someone like Hans Frank, the governor-general of Nazi-occupied Poland during WW2, charged with the murder of four million human beings, is a tough thing to imagine.
Nevertheless, when I asked Philippe Sands – lawyer and writer – whether he would have defended the Nazis in the dock…
Hermann Göring held a uniquely prominent position among the architects of Nazi Germany. As the founder of the Gestapo, commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, and Adolf Hitler’s chosen successor, his name became synonymous with the Third Reich at the height of its power – and while it collapsed.
To…
I’m a November baby. Born in the darkest month of the year. A Scorpio. My wife and I were married on the Day of the Dead. She’s a Scorpio too.
When I think of November, I think of standing at the cenotaph in the bitter cold as the names of…
The gladiators of ancient Rome are nearly always imagined as figures of perfect physical presence. They’re popularly pictured as lean, muscular and bronzed from their bouts under the Mediterranean sun.
But as classical historian Harry Sidebottom explains on the HistoryExtra podcast, the reality was far stranger, and more complex.…
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell
So here we are — the one year anniversary of Donald Trump’s election.
Do you feel like it’s been 365 days? Or forever?
Does it like you’ve…
Eighty years ago, barely a few months after the end of the Second World War, a group of Nazi leaders found themselves in the dock at Nuremberg for the world’s first ever international criminal trial.
In a new HistoryExtra podcast series, available weekly from 16 November, I am joined by…
It's the evening of 4 November 1605, and a search party has descended into the cellars beneath the Palace of Westminster. Among the stacks of firewood, they find a man, calm and composed, guarding dozens of casks of gunpowder.
That man was Guy Fawkes, and within hours from him…
Recently, CBC ran a story about how the Poilievre Conservatives are touring Canadian universities to build support among young men. Conservative MP Jamil Javani has been appointed for the job, and he’s using a familiar right-wing playbook made famous by Charlie Kirk. The focus is on reaching out to…
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