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...Spanish Empire. Image: Katie Bordner. Empires were also sites of resistance, survival, and accommodation. How colonised people responded to their condition was varied: some tried to overthrow imperial regimes, others sought limited power through cooperation with individuals and states. Everyday acts of survival, the preservation of cultural identity, and the rise of...

...Spanish forces between 1519 and 1521. These themes tie the iconography of the main wall to the north wall, which depicts the Aztec world. Here, the central iconographic feature is Quetzalcóatl – the important Meso-American mythological figure – in front of an Aztec pyramid. Arranged around him are a seated group of white-robed admirers as well as other figure groups...

...Spanish flu epidemic, about three million dead were mourned. Now the country was being humiliated by vindictive victors, leading to resentment of those who had signed the Armistice agreement and the subsequent peace agreement at Versailles. Most prominently among them was the Catholic Centre Party politician Matthias Erzberger. His role in the Armistice negotiations and...