Did the British People Welcome the Declaration of War in August 1914?
Stephen Roberts explodes a popular historical over-simplification.
Stephen Roberts explodes a popular historical over-simplification.
Matthew Stewart traces the roots of the Greco-Turkish war of 1921-22, and the consequent refugee crisis, to the postwar settlements of 1919-20.
Dean Juniper argues that war encouraged the development of radio technology, as of so much else.
Jonathan Lewis and Hew Strachan point out the daunting challenges and exciting opportunities involved in producing a new major TV series.
Matthew Stewart discusses Peter Weir's 1981 cinematic tour de force, and what it tells us about the ANZAC myth.
Joanna Bourke on how new ways of looking at masculinity are revising our view of men’s experience in the First World War.
Richard Wilkinson explains what went wrong in Anglo-German relations before the First World War.
Richard Wilkinson argues that, for all his faults, a case can be made for the aloof aristocrat at the Foreign Office in 1900-1905.
David Rooney describes the extraordinary exploits of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German soldier who kept the Allies tied down in Africa throughout the Great War.
Mark Mazower looks back to the much maligned Versailles Treaty and finds we still live in the continent it created.