He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not only ...
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...
In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...
In the 1970s private investigators in the UK came under attack for their distasteful methods and dubious legality. What did ...
On 25 May 1926 a party of Moroccans arrived at the frontline headquarters of the French army in northern Morocco. They had ...
If all the world’s a stage, argues Indira Ghose in A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England, ...
A fter months of diplomatic wrangling, national security reviews, and political infighting, on 20 January 2026 the UK ...
Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy by Carol Chillington Rutter is a case study of the archetypal early modern ...
Why are you a historian of the pre-modern Balkans and Turkey? I was born in Bulgaria, but as an undergraduate in the UK I ...
If the present, with its conflicts and uncertainties, is impossible to know, asks Italo Calvino, how can we hope to understand the past?
The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without foundation. For as one writer remarked a generation after 1066, ‘French customs ...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that, in 883, King Alfred sent an embassy to India: [That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St Thomas and St ...
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