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History
Ancient Rome's most controversial woman
By Daisy Dunn
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Art
The 'Ghost Army' that helped win WW2
By Matthew Wilson
(Credit: DC Films/Warner Bros)
Film
The ancient roots of Wonder Woman
By Kimiya Shokoohi
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Poetry
A 13th-Century poet’s lessons for today
By Joobin Bekhrad
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Books
Why we can’t get enough of the Tudors
By Hephzibah Anderson
The Wounded Achilles, 1825, by Filippo Albacini (Credit: Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth/ Chatsworth Settlement Trustees)
History
Did the Trojan War actually happen?
By Daisy Dunn
(Credit: Griffith Institute, University of Oxford; colourised by Dynamichrome)
Art history
How a tomb cast a spell on the world
By Patricia Clavin
Hitler (Credit: Getty)
Comedy
How Britain fought Hitler with humour
By Kristina Moorehead
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Books
A clear-eyed view of evil and pain
By Thomas Graham
Green Man stone carving
Britain
The surprising roots of the Green Man
Jens Møller (Credit: Judy Glickman Lauder)
History
The Danish network that defied Hitler
By Fiona Macdonald
(Credit: Shao Po Chao)
Music
Taiwan's eerie sonic weapon
By Vivienne Chow
Generals Franco And Mola (Credit: Getty)
Film
The mystery of Franco's 'lost' film
By Thomas Graham
Imru’ al-Qais, an exiled poet-king, is credited as the originator of the ‘ruin poetry’ form – one of his poems is said to hang in the Kaaba at Mecca (Credit: The British Library)
Literature
The ancient poems that explain today
By Paul Cooper
(Credit: Rebecca Hendin)
Stories that shaped the world
The play that reshaped English
By Biodun Jeyifo
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