Sam Bankman-Fried, once considered a star in the freewheeling world of cryptocurrency, has been charged with conspiracy, fraud and money laundering.
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In the Charitable Corporation Scandal, a group of politically connected directors leveraged the company’s altruistic image to attract investors – before raiding the funds to prop up other ventures.
From ‘make do’ to ‘make merry’: Britons did their best to forget the hardships of war at Christmas in 1942.
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By the fourth festive season into the war, rationing was biting – but good news from the front and the generosity of US soldiers helped keep morale buoyant.
George Canning, now the second-shortest-serving prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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Many still speculate about what George Canning would have achieved had he not died 119 days into his premiership.
Remnants of polychrome colouring were scrubbed from recovered ancient Greek sculptures and artists created new all-white marble sculptures seen as continuous with an imagined past.
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Western fashion, laundering and style reflected the racialized politics dramatically shaped by profound global transformations bound up with slavery, colonialism and modernization.
King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson on holiday in Yugoslavia.
A cautionary tale for the UK press .
Members of the British royal family follow behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as it is carried out of Westminster Abbey after her state funeral.
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A scholar of British history explains how the ornate church and its significance to the monarchy have changed over centuries.
Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation, age 27.
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Other queens were just teenagers when they ascended the throne.
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Britain has gone through unimaginable change culturally and politically during Elizabeth’s 70-year reign.
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Tariq Ali’s scathing new book assessing Winston Churchill’s life and legacy paints him as a racist opportunist but overstates Churchill’s enduring influence on politics today.
Reagan emphasised the special relationship between the US and the UK.
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Reagan was the first US president to address the UK parliament. What he said still carries weight for Anglo-American relations decades on.
Scrapbooks made for the coronation in 1953 atop other scrapbooks made for royal events throughout the 20th century.
Scrapbooks on the Royal Family are more meaningful objects for our families, and our own communities, than we might first expect.
Tracing our ancestors’ connections to colonialism and industrialisation can help us personally connect with the climate crisis.
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Understanding how our ancestors may have benefited from industrialisation and colonialism could help us become more climate-friendly citizens.
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From the tax we pay to the wine we drink, many policies in Britain today have their roots in imperialism.
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Warring countries have ben imposing sanctions on their enemies for hundreds of years. They have met with mixed success.
Protests against Section 28 ranged from marches to invading the nightly news.
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Opposition to the controversial law reflected the British national character, reminiscent of comedies like the Carry On films.
Pupils from a German ‘Napola’ at Ballenstedt before a football game with a visiting side from an English public school.
Even after the notorious Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, some headmasters thought pupil exchanges with Nazi Germany were a good idea.
Karl Collins and Rochelle Rose in Rockets and Blue Lights at the National Theatre.
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Black British women have been staging plays in recent years about Britain’s role in slavery, a history the country is too eager to forget.
Henry ‘Box’ Brown’s arrival in Philadelphia.
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Abolition in the UK tends to focus on the work of Yorkshireman William Wilberforce but there were many Black abolitionists whose tireless work has been forgotten.
An Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Taplow Court, England.
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New analysis of Anglo-Saxon skulls suggests that being an Anglo-Saxon was a matter of language and culture, and not genetics.
Lord Brougham as John Bull, calling on the Prince Regent (later George IV) to curb his extravagance.
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The excesses of political leaders have always needed checking.