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In the long shadow of war and global disillusionment, Slaughterhouse-Five stands out not just as a literary classic, but as an urgent, strange, and...
The history of Britain's working men’s clubs is rapidly fading in our collective memory, arguably persisting in the cultural imagination mainly through popular shows...
In the cold winter of January 1923, a 29-year-old woman named Edith Thompson was led to the gallows of Holloway Prison. She had been...
The new Superman film is accused by MAGA of being 'woke'. Here are two official Superman comic strip images from 1938 and 1949. And from a...
On the morning of 22 July 1946, the city of Jerusalem awoke to a tragedy that would ripple through history: the bombing of the...
Power in Britain no longer wears a top hat or sits in a manor house visible from the village green. It is faceless, paperwork-deep,...
Right-wing political parties across many Western democracies, including the UK, the US, and Australia, have long-standing and well-documented financial ties to the fossil fuel...
History rarely remembers Mary Burns. She’s often mentioned only in passing, as “Engels’ Irish girlfriend,” a minor character in the shadows of Friedrich Engels...
In the pantheon of Hollywood misfires, few films loom larger or cast a darker shadow than The Conqueror. Released in 1956, the film is...

Can You Name The Year?

The inset image is some of the programming from 19 May of that year. The following are some of the events that occurred. But, without...