The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed explores one financial panic amongst many.

A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das and A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England ...

In the 1960s Iran and Israel were on friendly terms. One Iranian writer, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, saw the Jewish state as a model ...

The shocking murder of its royal family in June 2001 changed the course of Nepal’s history. On the massacre’s 25th ...

History of a Tangled Relationship by Stefan Creuzberger discovers the dynamic that defines Europe. On 27 February 2022, three days into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

On 31 May 1786 Paris relished the humiliation of Marie Antoinette as the Affaire du collier de la reine concluded in court.

For H.P. Lovecraft there was nothing as familiar – or as frightening – as the past. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, ...

In Churchill and the Crown, Ted Powell explores the interwoven lives of Britain’s Marlborough man and the monarchs he served. There have been many notable courtier-politicians in British history. From ...

Roger Hudson describes the destruction during the Paris Commune of the memorial to Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz in 1805. One of the entrances to the Place Vendôme at the heart of fashionable Paris ...

In hiding and soon to be sentenced to death in absentia, Eugène Pottier completed a poem In June 1871 that still serves as the rallying cry for the Left worldwide: L’Internationale. Its themes of ...

The two Kennedy brothers were assassinated within five years of each other. Robert Francis Kennedy was forty-two when he was shot down in Los Angeles. The seventh child of his family and the ...

It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding the bat with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Since the publication of Stoker’s novel, the connection has ...