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 ...
In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...
In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...
On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.
A t the core of environmental history lies a simple feedback loop: that humanity and the environment are in a perpetual and ...
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 ...
In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...
The Indefatigable Asa Briggs: A Biography by Adam Sisman is a detailed portrait of that voluminous chronicler of Victorian things. I knew Asa Briggs well; his life and work had a huge impact upon mine ...
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