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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on June 6, 2026June 3, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Image: Visual by Martina Monti, Credit Getty Images. Retrieved from Euroactiv.W*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From Europeanists who aim to revive Latin to the history of today’s Sino-Japanese “war of words”, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on May 30, 2026May 27, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

Image: Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of “Magnifica Humanitas” at the Vatican’s Synod Hall May 25, 2026, the first encyclical of his papacy, which focused on the rise of artificial intelligence. (OSV News/Reuters/Yara Nardi), retrieved from The National Catholic Reporter.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the Vatican’s historic apology for legitimising slavery to three pioneers of modern humanism, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on May 23, 2026May 21, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Image: The Franco-themed Una Grande Libre bar-restaurant in Madrid’s Usera neighbourhood. Photo credit: Abbas Asaria. Retrieved from The Guardian.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From Franco-themed cafes to memories of the Indigo rebellion, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on May 16, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Map: The Conversation, CC-BY-NDCreated with Datawrapper. Retrieved from The Conversation.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From Putin’s pick of a German ex-chancellor for peace talks to the Danish roots of shipping tolls, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on May 9, 2026May 7, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

Photo: “Even as Communist parties have become numerically marginal in Tamil Nadu’s electoral politics, the village takes pride in its enduring ideological roots.” Credit: Suresh K Pandey. Retrieved from Outlook India.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the saboteur of Apartheid’s nuclear dream to a modern village draped in Marxist relics, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on May 2, 2026April 30, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: Amjad Youssef in a mugshot released by the interior ministry. Photograph: X. Retrieved from The Guardian.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From a siege in Mali to the arrest of one of Syria’s most infamous massacre organisers, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on April 25, 2026April 24, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: Christian Rainer says he found the name of his grandfather, Franz Rainer (1886-1961), “within a few seconds”. Retrieved from BBC News.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From populist influences on global institutions to a new tool uncovering Nazi Party family affiliations, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on April 18, 2026April 16, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: The synagogue Maciejow, now Lukiv, Ukraine. (Arolson Archive). Retrieved from The Jewish Chronicle*.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From a post-Viktor Orbán Europe to the ongoing advancements in Holocaust archive research, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on April 11, 2026April 9, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: A woman makes coffee in a tent at a refugee camp in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Ximena Borrazas/SOPA images via Reuters Connect. Retrieved from The New Humanitarian.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From countering global kleptocracy to a possible merger of two major African conflicts, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on April 4, 2026April 2, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: The Cameroonian Restitution Commission visits Berlin’s Ethnological Museum in 2023. Tom Christen; © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Eric Hesmerg*. *Retrieved from The Art Newspaper*.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From President Lula da Silva’s call for UN reforms to Germany’s colonial restitution council, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on March 28, 2026March 27, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

Photo: Enslaved people owned by the British mining company St John d’El Rey from 1868 or 1869. Photograph by Thereza Christina Maria collection/Courtesy of the National Library of Brazil. Retrieved from The Guardian.

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From the UN declaring transatlantic slavery the gravest Crime against Humanity to the global impact of the US-Iran war, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on March 21, 2026March 20, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: The vault in the decommissioned coalmine where data from around the world is stored, courtesy of AWA. Retrieved from The Guardian.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From Nigerian stories archived in the Arctic to historical methods and GenAI, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on March 14, 2026March 13, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: Famine relief efforts in Sudan by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), WikiCommons, retrieved from NIOD “The Violence of Hunger”.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From famine as a weapon to Scotland’s anti-suffrage woman MP, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on March 7, 2026March 5, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: A yacht sails past a plume of smoke rising from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026.* *Retrieved from USA Today.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From Iranian Americans reacting to Trump’s military strikes to the launch of an AI ethics consortium in the UK, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on February 28, 2026February 27, 2026 by CIGH Exeter

*Photo: A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave in Germany. Universität Tübingen/Hildegard Jensen, retrieved from Scientific American.*

Mitchel Stuffers
Assistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter

From Africa’s pre-colonial decentralisation to the origins of written language, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From Europeanists who aim to revive Latin to the history of today’s Sino-Japanese “war of words”, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the Vatican’s historic apology for legitimising slavery to three pioneers of modern humanism, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From Franco-themed cafes to memories of the Indigo rebellion, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From Putin’s pick of a German ex-chancellor for peace talks to the Danish roots of shipping tolls, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the saboteur of Apartheid’s nuclear dream to a modern village draped in Marxist relics, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From a siege in Mali to the arrest of one of Syria’s most infamous massacre organisers, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From populist influences on global institutions to a new tool uncovering Nazi Party family affiliations, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From a post-Viktor Orbán Europe to the ongoing advancements in Holocaust archive research, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From countering global kleptocracy to a possible merger of two major African conflicts, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From President Lula da Silva’s call for UN reforms to Germany’s colonial restitution council, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the UN declaring transatlantic slavery the gravest Crime against Humanity to the global impact of the US-Iran war, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From Nigerian stories archived in the Arctic to historical methods and GenAI, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From famine as a weapon to Scotland’s anti-suffrage woman MP, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From Iranian Americans reacting to Trump’s military strikes to the launch of an AI ethics consortium in the UK, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From Africa’s pre-colonial decentralisation to the origins of written language, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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