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Jimmy Carter: a moral man but a diffident president
Following the death of the former US president in December, historian Mark White recalls the life and work of a leader whose ...
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Nazino was Stalin’s worst labour gulag. Its inmates knew it by another name: Cannibal Island
Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...
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The outrageous heretical legend of Pope Joan, history’s only female pope
When it comes to popes, the current split between men and women is 266 to zero. But, as Jonny Wilkes explores, that hasn’t ...