He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not only ...
In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...
I n the autumn of 1974 Barrie Quartermain, a Rolls Royce driving, six-foot five private investigator who had recently been on ...
On 25 May 1926 a party of Moroccans arrived at the frontline headquarters of the French army in northern Morocco. They had ...
A fter months of diplomatic wrangling, national security reviews, and political infighting, on 20 January 2026 the UK ...
If all the world’s a stage, argues Indira Ghose in A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England, ...
Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy by Carol Chillington Rutter is a case study of the archetypal early modern ...
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 ...
The traditional date for the founding of the greatest city of the Western world was the product of guesswork by Roman writers of the late centuries BC, working backwards from their own time. There ...
More than a million Indians fought for Britain in the First World War, 60,000 of whom were killed. In the immediate aftermath of the war, pressure for Indian independence mounted. Early in April 1919 ...
When Bolesław Chrobry, ‘the Brave’, succeeded to the Duchy of Poland in 992 he inherited a state both newly minted and newly Christianised by his father, Mieszko I. But it wasn’t yet a kingdom. At the ...
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