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“The reverberations lasted for generations” | Matthew Gabriele and David M Perry on the civil war of Charlemagne's grandsons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Hugh Cowling

What inspires our love of history? 6 historians give their childhood recollections on what got them started. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lilian Lenton, collage by Rachel Dickens

Lilian Lenton, the 'Elusive Pimpernel': the courageous and daring suffragette who took direct action. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How to build a radical: what the Gunpowder Plot can teach us about extremism today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who was the greatest President of the United States in history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The palace of Kublai Khan’s son is illustrated in a 15th-century manuscript of the Travels of Marco Polo. Despite such vivid depictions, no reference to the Venetian merchant has ever been found in Chinese sources.

Do The Travels of Marco Polo belong in the non-fiction section, or fantasy?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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