#Occupation

In an Amsterdam prison during the Nazi occupation, Sal Bramson drew his cell on pieces of cotton cloth. He added handwritten explanations and sent these messages to his mother, concealed inside a shirt collar among the prison laundry.…

Models of early human dispersal rely on climate to predict where populations could settle, with freshwater assumed to govern the timing and geography1,2, particularly across the Saharo-Arabian arid belt, where humid windows episodically opened corridors…

Despite their occupations of Britain, the Romans and Vikings didn't leave much of a genetic mark on Britons. The Anglo-Saxons, though, were a different story.

The Gaza ceasefire offers temporary relief but fails to address the root causes of Palestinian suffering

Daniel Cowling’s book Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans shows how weary officials (and actors) tried to piece together post-war Germany