In the 15th century Iceland was caught in a trade war between the Kalmar Union, the Hanseatic League, and England. Which ...
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 ...
As Spain and France moved into Morocco, the people of the Rif Mountains united to form a new state. For five years they ...
The discovery of Brazil was an episode in the creation of a Portuguese commercial empire which in less than a hundred years extended to four continents. The Portuguese established West African coastal ...
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...
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 ...
The death-knell of the Chartist movement in Britain sounded on what was meant to be its day of triumph. In a year when thrones tottered and regimes quailed as revolutions broke out all over Europe, ...
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 ...
The art world was in ferment in the late 19th century. In Paris and Vienna radical ideas were everywhere. But in the newly founded kingdom of Italy things were different. ‘Who ever in Italy spoke or ...
‘Though separated by ten thousand leagues of clouds and waves, our territories are as it were close to each other.’ These were the words with which the retired but de facto ruler of Japan, Tokugawa ...
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