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One hundred years ago this spring, Joseph F. Mikulec walked 2,000 miles from Dayton, Ohio, to Calgary, Canada. Three weeks into his journey, Mikulec stopped in St. Louis, Missouri, to give a talk on his travels. Over the past 14 years, the Croatian “hyperpedestrian” had traversed some 100,000 miles on

The Power of the Dog, Netflix, 128 minutes, 2021, R Though filmed in the sweeping, jagged hills of New Zealand, The Power of the Dog—a Western from noted Kiwi director Jane Campion—does not get caught up in the sprawling beauty of the landscape. Based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of

Catherine Hokin, author of The Pilot’s Girl, looks at the Berlin Blockade of 1948–9 – the first Cold War stand-off – and how the western Allies responded. “History is written by the victors” is one of those phrases that is repeated so often it has turned into a cliché. To

<img src=”https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/7/2022/03/Pod-Murray-Pittock-WL-7156c79.jpg?quality=90&resize=620,413″ width=”620″ height=”413″ class=”wp-image-205073 alignnone size-landscape_thumbnail” alt=”Pod Murray Pittock WL” title=”Pod Murray Pittock WL” /> <p>What do we mean by the word ‘clan’? Were these Scottish kinship groups more often allies or enemies? And did they really wear tartan? Speaking with Emily Briffett, Professor Murray Pittock tackles popular search

Archaeologist Dominic Perring discusses what we know about London’s Roman past with Emily Briffett, examining the city’s key turning points and exploring how life there was affected by fire, plague and warfare. Using archaeological and historical records, he ties London’s story into the wider history of the Roman empire. Dominic

At about 8:45 a.m. on March 29, 1862, neighbors of Professor Samuel Jackson’s fireworks-turned-munitions factory heard a low rumble like the sound of distant thunder. Then came the roar of an explosion, followed by an even louder blast, as gunpowder and cartridges ignited in the south Philadelphia factory across the

By Joshua Levine Photographs by Kate Peters Cat Jarman led me through a dense tangle of forest called Heath Wood. We were in Derbyshire, close to the very heart of England. There was no path, and the forest floor was overgrown with bracken and bush. It was easy to lose

These words were noted by the sales assistant, who was keeping a diary for Mass Observation, the social research project that recorded everyday comments by people across the land. Such remarks, plus other data, were used to provide regular assessments of morale for the Home Intelligence unit of the Ministry

There is a school of thought that winning the American Revolutionary War would have actually been bad for Britain. At risk of a renewal of hostilities by a resentful American population still seeking their independence, the British may have been compelled to maintain a large and costly presence in the colonies;

<img src=”https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/7/2022/03/Pod-Lucy-Santos-WL-04d859d.jpg?quality=90&resize=620,413″ width=”620″ height=”413″ class=”wp-image-204344 alignnone size-landscape_thumbnail” alt=”Pod Lucy Santos WL” title=”Pod Lucy Santos WL” /> <p>Health and beauty historian Lucy Jane Santos answers listener questions and popular online search queries about beauty throughout the ages. From early cosmetics apparently made for gladiators to whether Georgian women really did use