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The Counting House of the World — How Distant Goods Remade Europe
Neuzeit

The Counting House of the World — How Distant Goods Remade Europe

Shares, tulips, porcelain and sugar: how a new order of trade made Europe rich, and kept quiet about who paid for it.

August 3, 2026

The Master's Workshop — Where the Colours of the Renaissance Were Made
Renaissance

The Master's Workshop — Where the Colours of the Renaissance Were Made

Behind every Renaissance masterpiece stood a workshop: apprentices, guilds, and a blue more precious than gold.

July 19, 2026

Voices in Stone — Greece, Rome and the Art of the Word
Antike

Voices in Stone — Greece, Rome and the Art of the Word

A heckle on the agora, a law in bronze, a curse in Pompeii's ash: antiquity as the age in which Europe learned to speak.

July 12, 2026

Rupture and Departure — When Europe Remeasured the World
Neuzeit

Rupture and Departure — When Europe Remeasured the World

In 1517 Luther's theses shatter the Church's unity while Magellan's fleet circles the globe — Europe remeasures both faith and world.

July 8, 2026

Mittelalter

Between Two Lights — The Middle Ages and the Myth of the Dark

A thousand years branded as "dark" — yet they gave us universities, cathedrals, and the work of a visionary abbess on the Rhine.

July 7, 2026

The Rebirth — When Florence Reinvented the World
Renaissance

The Rebirth — When Florence Reinvented the World

Between the medieval and modern worlds, Florence awakens an age of genius — bankrolled by merchants, embodied by Leonardo's mirror script.

July 7, 2026

The Age of Those Still Living — History Without an Ending
Zeitgeschichte

The Age of Those Still Living — History Without an Ending

The only epoch without an end — from thirteen days at the nuclear brink to a present that will itself be history tomorrow.

July 6, 2026

Marble and Ash — Greece, Rome and the Legacy of Antiquity
Antike

Marble and Ash — Greece, Rome and the Legacy of Antiquity

Greece thought, Rome built — and Pompeii kept the moment. A journey through a thousand years that still shape Europe today.

July 6, 2026

The Shine of Metal — How the Bronze Age Connected the World
Bronzezeit

The Shine of Metal — How the Bronze Age Connected the World

Copper, tin and far-flung trade routes: how one alloy forged the first connected world — and how fire and drought brought it down.

July 5, 2026