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In the current issue: The destruction of Medieval England’s Jews, British soldiers vs the wilderness in the American Revolutionary War, unreported murder in East Germany, ‘mad duchess’ Elizabeth Cavendish, and more.

2025年1月1日 · Kashmir, Leipzig Trials, Renaissance Prague. Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia – Amedeo Feniello’s history of the Camorra – has this much in common with the case against them: it’s all about the evidence.

23 小时之前 · R epresentatives of seven of the American colonies met at the Congress of Albany in June 1754. The aim of the conference was to bring these starkly different and disunited colonial entities into a joint defence pact against French aggression, in what would become known in America as the French and Indian War and in Britain as the Seven Years War.

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From gladiators in Ancient Rome to the twentieth century, browse below to find a selection of our most popular articles for schools and colleges across the world. Published in History Review and History Today, this list also includes articles on essay …

2024年12月12日 · ‘Courageous, morally complex history – and superb scholarship’ Nile Green is Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA and author of Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah (W.W. Norton). I n the mid-1500s, the Roshaniyya preached to the people of the Afghan highlands that Allah had spoken to them in their lowly Pashto language.

Ukraine War One Year On . W ith 24 February marking the first anniversary of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine (Crimea and Donbas having been occupied in 2014), William Rees looked at the precedents for Vladimir Putin’s narrative of Western collapse (‘Decline and Fall’).Later in the year, George Garnett reflected on Putin’s …

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On 28 August 1839, the earl of Eglinton hosted a ‘medieval’ tournament to mark Queen Victoria’s coronation. It was a damp squib.