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Features
Here you can explore our archive of long form pieces, written by expert historians. In these features, they explain where they found their ideas, how they crafted their stories, what new discoveries they have made and arguments they have proposed.
A Remarkable Railway Crash at Montparnasse in Paris (1895)
The day in 1895 when a locomotive ploughed through the wall of Montparnasse Station
The Dazzling Countess of Castiglione (1865)
In the 1860s, 'La Divine Comtesse' was considered the most beautiful woman of her day
Driving a Flock of Sheep through London (1926)
In the 1920s the last traces of old Dickensian London faded as the modern city grew at pace
Shakespeare’s Lost Years
Tinker? Tailor? Soldier? Spy? Howard Linskey looks back at the most mysterious phase of Shakespeare's life
The Construction of the Eiffel Tower (1888)
The Parisian skyline was changing in a strange and stirring way in July 1888 when Gustave Eiffel led a tour of his majestic new tower
Johnny Reynolds The Daredevil 'Human Fly' (1917)
On Wednesday 5 September 1917, the daredevil climber Johnny Reynolds performed in Washington D.C.
Jack Delano In Pittsburgh's Mill District (1941)
We search for the source of this classic image by one of twentieth century's great documentary photographers
Martha Dodd: A Yank in the KGB
Brendan McNally describes the strange sequence of events that took a girl from Chicago to Nazi Berlin