From imported plant species to water pollution, Britain’s 19th century wool trade transformed the world. I n the early 1910s ...

Buddhism: A Journey Through History by Donald S. Lopez Jr. swiftly soon loses sight of the Buddha himself. Is that a bad ...

Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England by Martyn Percy takes the British Empire’s church militant to task. Is ...

How did early modern millers get their bad reputations? B y the end of the medieval period millers had poor reputations.

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia under one roof. This incredible library was forgotten for ...

The Nazi camps at Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen were liberated on 11 and 15 April 1945 respectively. In the week that followed, graphic photographs and descriptions of the horrors found by Allied ...

The most famous act of insubordination in the annals of the Royal Navy occurred when Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, second-in-command of the British fleet at Copenhagen in the 74-gun battleship Elephant, ...

Graham Goodlad examines the controverisal reputation of Napoleon Bonaparte as a military commander.

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 ...

Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of ...

As leader of a highly centralised dictatorship Josef Stalin inevitably played a pivotal part in every area of the Soviet war effort during the Great Patriotic War (1941-45). Hence he bore direct ...