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Ronni Salt's debut is historical crime fiction at its best, with a strong sense of place and time and wonderful characters at ...

Historian Timothy Snyder asserts that freedom is something we must work for – and collective action is imperative to ...

Sue Prideaux separates the man from the myth in this new account of the controversial nineteenth-century French artist. Who was Paul Gauguin? Was he a ‘colonialist’; ‘the bad boy who spread syphilis ...