The recent 2025 BBC Reith Lectures were given by a Dutch historian, Rutger Bregman, who called for...
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Olusoga’s ‘Empire’
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History Reclaimed: December 2025 Newsletter
This Christmas 2025 newsletter examines British history disinformation, from BBC bias and imperial...
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David Olusoga’s version of Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency
David Olusoga's account of the 'Mau Mau Emergency' in Kenya in the 1950s in his new BBC series...
History on the BBC: The Prescott Report and David Olusoga on...
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Human Breeding and the Lethal Chamber: Eugenics among British...
In the second of his essays for History Reclaimed, Jesper Rosenløv, shows the influence of eugenics...
In The Netherlands, a Lesson in American History
History Reclaimed has contested claims that imperial soldiers and service personnel were treated...
