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27.04.2023.

White Horse: the 1923 Cup Final, my Grandfather and Me

How one man's road to Wembley went through Egypt, East Africa and beyond

26.05.2021.

Empire in Crumbs

Dominique Kirchner Reill’s new book The Fiume Crisis takes an iconoclastic new look at the history of Rijeka after World War I

26.05.2021.

Iron in the Soul

It is forty years since Andrzej Wajda’s epoch-defining Man of Iron walked away with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

04.11.2019.

The Battle for Rīga

It is 100 years since a combined force of Germans and Russians were beaten back by a nascent Latvian army, backed up by British and French warships

06.09.2019.

Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Culture of Violence

Was the Italian soldier-poet a liberator? Or a warning of the dark times to come?

14.6.2016.

Apoksiomen Superstar

One of Europe’s most breathtaking new museums is on the Croatian island of Lošinj

27.4.2015.

Coast of Thrones

The more popular the Croatian Adriatic becomes, the less control it exerts over its own narratives

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