History
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My grandfather went to Arezzo.
George VI reached Arezzo nine days after its liberation, in July 1944, to visit the troops. Behind that visit lay Italian gold, war reparations, and networks re-emerging from the fall… Read more.
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A Society Educated to Be Cautious Stops Growing
The liberators’ reflections on the liberated: how Allied intervention in Italian education after 1943 was organised, and what it may still have to do with Italy’s caution toward risk and… Read more.
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The British Funding Behind Mussolini’s Fascism: Revealed
From the money paid to Il Popolo d’Italia in 1917 to the Hoare-Laval Pact of 1935, the story of Sir Samuel Hoare, the British intelligence figure who met Mussolini before… Read more.
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Anglicanism and Zionism: A History Far Older Than the State of Israel
The relationship between the Anglican world and Zionism is often told as a straightforward alliance. The real story goes back centuries before Theodor Herzl, through Protestant theology, Victorian aristocrats and… Read more.
