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A service supporting families in Wales saw a rise in "child on parent" domestic abuse in lockdown.

It is important to question Gandhi, but it is equally important not to misrepresent him, says eminent historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil effect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt. Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over two hundred individuals intimately associated with Hitler. At a certain distance yet still with access to many of the people who enabled and who opposed the führer and his Third Reich, Toland str...

Meaning in Emptiness Photographer Tomoko Yoneda (b. 1965) has spent the last few decades travelling to locations across the world which are saturated with historic and cultural memory – from earthquake sites to abandoned government buildings. A retrospective of her work, now running at the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid, poses the question of whether these vacant or isolated spaces bear a residue of the events they witnessed. Born in Akashi, Japan, Yoneda began training as a journalist in the United States before abandoning her studies to pursue photography, gaining a degree from the U...

Bioi parallēloi ( Parallel Lives), the drama takes place in 44 bce, after Caesar has returned to Rome. Fearing Caesar’s ambition, Cassius forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans. (For Caesar’s view of Cassius, see video.) He persuades the reluctant Brutus—Caesar’s trusted friend—to join them. Brutus, troubled and sleepless, finds comfort in the companionship of his noble wife, Portia. Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia, alarmed by prophetic dreams, warns her husband not to go to the Capitol the next day (for Caesar’s response, see video). Then, as planned, Caesar is slain in the Sen...