historical

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However, giving evidence to the Education Select Committee last month, Children and Families Minister Josh MacAlister acknowledged that the state "had a role" in historical forced adoptions.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

No doubt older generations understood the evil of the Nazis, but young people don’t lack access to historical facts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

“And it’s great to see that she’s doing it in a historical context that’s getting more people to care about wolves.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

The historical record suggests it won’t turn out differently.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The real historical puzzle, we might think, is not this eighteenth-century loss of belief in witches and demons, but the progressive re-enchantment of the world in the nineteenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton