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Why did Joseph Stalin decide to invade Finland in 1939?

The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began in late 1939. For Stalin, as Kimmo Rentola explains, it turned out to be a strategic blunder.

By Unseen Histories

November 30^th, 2023

Footnotes Author Photograph © Linda Tammisto. With thanks to Heather Nathan.

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Why are we drawn to the mountains?

George Mallory, one of the central figures in the history of mountaineering, was haunted by this simple question, as the author Daniel Light explains

New History Books for September 2024

From Ancient India to Chernobyl, the Commonwealth of England to King Henry V

The Shame and the Glory

On the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, we talk to Patrick Bishop about a complex episode in French history

In Pursuit of Margaret Paston

For twenty five years Diane Watt has been searching letters and landscapes for traces of one of the fifteenth-century's most intriguing figures

New History Books for August 2024

From Operation Barbarossa to the Medieval scriptorium, Kyiv to Cornwall

Early modern regime change

Susan Doran examines the fault line between two of England's great dynasties: the Tudors and the Stuarts

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