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If you want to understand Russia’s war against Ukraine and the wider political and security issues surrounding it, you have to scratch beneath the surface, get close to the sources, find participants and witnesses, and rigorously test claims against evidence. Sometimes you have to travel much further afield than you expected, to the countries whose […]

The Renaissance Italian Medici family are known today for their ruthless pursuit of power and wealth and their incomparable art collection, now housed in the world-famous Uffizi Museum Galleries in Florence. This lecture reveals the previously hidden roles of the Medici women in the family’s acquisition and preservation of wealth and power, especially through marriage. […]