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History

July 2024

  • Omaha Beach secured after D-Day in 1944.

    Mistruths we’re told about British history

  • Goldsmiths building

    Goldsmiths ‘determined’ to close Black British literature course, critics say

June 2024

  • Dyan Colclough

    Other lives
    Dyan Colclough obituary

  • Inspired by the Tower’s many ghosts … Williams and Kenny.

    Nardus Williams/Elizabeth Kenny review – compelling and crystalline duo open Spitalfields festival

  • Richard Abraham

    Other lives
    Richard Abraham obituary

  • Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes, demonstrates howling

    ‘I cast spells at the audience’: Bat for Lashes on howling, magic and new documentary on witch trials

  • Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

  • From the Observer archive
    ‘Painting is dead’: celebrating the 150th anniversary of photography in 1989

May 2024

  • Guardian Documentary, 'Old Lesbians' by filmmaker Meghan McDonough

    The Guardian documentary
    Old Lesbians: reclaiming old age and queerness through storytelling

  • From first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out and from loss to connection. For the last 25 years, retired schoolteacher Arden Eversmeyer travelled from Houston across the US to record hundreds of oral 'herstories' from a rapidly disappearing population. Old Lesbians honours Arden’s legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project – a powerful reminder of the strength, resilience and unwavering spirit of these remarkable women

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    The Guardian documentary
    Old Lesbians: reclaiming old age and queerness through storytelling

  • Portrait of a primeval caveman wearing an animal skin in a cave, holding a lit torch

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: what was humanity’s first word?

  • Chris Williams

    Other lives
    Chris Williams obituary

  • Notes and queries
    What was humanity’s first word?

  • Neolithic site in Orkney to be reburied after 20 years of excavation

  • Goldsmiths University to keep Black British literature course open

  • Award-winning UK teacher aims to show adults their historical blind spots

  • Other lives
    Peter Searby obituary

  • UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

  • Is this the answer to the Roman dodecahedron puzzle that has archaeologists stumped?

  • A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?

    Timothy Garton Ash
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