Category - History

• Lest we forget: 60 years after ‘Konfrontas­i’
• It happened this week...
• George Lucas on museum opening: ‘This one almost broke my will’
• The handsome 6ft 4in KGB spy boss who defected – because he thought Western medicine could cure the impotence wrecking his marriage
• LONG STORY
• THE NEW JACOBINS
• Gang escape with masterpiec­es in daring Renoir raid
• Attack brought world together – then tore it apart
• Forget the arrow in the eye, Harold was stabbed, beheaded and disembowel­led
• Voices from a Coast Guard disaster
• Standing Since Before the Stars and Stripes
• CONTENTED FUSION
• Edward Colston showed no regret for profiting from slavery
• Court rules parts of study on Nazis in Canada be made public
• King’s in stitches! Charles jokes with Macron over Bayeux Tapestry in London
• Bound to entertain and illuminate
• Collecting ancient objects
• The captivatin­g contrasts of Ho Chi Minh City
• Popular art in spotlight at Lucas Museum
• National Civil Rights Museum announces honorees
• Mount Rushmore is completed
• A terrible tyrant? Poor George III was terribly ill
• It can’t stitch the UK and France together by itself – but the tapestry loan shows how quarrelsom­e neighbours can be nudged together by shared interests in a dangerous world
• John Galliano called off his Met retrospect­ive but the museum continues to face backlash over its initial plan to hold one.
• FIRST LOOK
• SEARCHING FOR MEANING
• The biography she would never have wanted
• STILL STANDING
• Legal cloud over Lucas Museum
• WHERE TO SEE
• Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ scroll and its wild afterlife
• In Their Honor: 25 Years of 9/11
• Naga people celebrate as museum agrees to send back remains
• The Apprentice
• France's enduring Gothic cathedrals
• Fossil hunter is honoured
• War erases Sudan’s cultural legacy