Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski is Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at UCL and Principal Historian of the Polish History ...
The kings of medieval France were fascinated by the Mongols, who they saw as great empire builders. Eager to learn more, they ...
On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.
In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...
A t the core of environmental history lies a simple feedback loop: that humanity and the environment are in a perpetual and ...
In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...
In conclusion, Hölscher suggests that the images of the symposium and the diver in the Paestum tomb provide a powerful ...
On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of ...
The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in the 1950s.
As historians do not fail to point out, it was not a single war that lasted for a hundred years, but a sporadic succession of wars on the same theme. Apart from naval engagements and coastal raids, it ...
A cross in the road in Oxford’s Broad St marks the site of the execution. Workmen had discovered part of a stake and some bits of charred bone there, in what had once been part of the town ditch.