Habsburgs
Florence's black Medici prince: a drama worthy of Shakespeare
In a recent interview, the African American actor Wendell Pierce revealed he had once been told by the head of…
From Barbary corsairs to people-traffickers: the violence of the Mediterranean
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Climate change, Bruegel-style
It is cold, but not in a cheery, robin-redbreast kind of way. The sky is slate blue; the sun, a…
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Danubia, by Simon Winder - review
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