Empire

Desmond Seward describes an outstanding colonial achievement of the Middle Ages.

B.G. Gokhale describes how, in India, at the beginning of the fourth century A.D., a line of rulers arose from obscurity to inaugurate a Golden Age.

S.G.F. Brandon marked the nineteenth centenary of the fall of the Holy City.

George Woodcock describes how, during the centuries after his death, Alexander became many things to many peoples and in countries often distant from those that saw his exploits.

David Jones profiles the man of whom Gibbon wrote: ‘the genius of Rome expired with Theodosius’.

Nearly four centuries ago, long before the French and the Americans, writes C.R. Boxer, the Spaniards intervened in Cambodia.

Harold Kurtz analyses Spanish predominance in the sixteenth-century West Indies.

During the second half of the seventeenth century, writes Robert Bruce, France hoped to dominate Siam and convert its sovereign to the Christian faith.

Sue Pyatt Peeler describes how, during the 1670s, a servant of the East India Company founded a flourishing city and port upon the western coast of India.

For Serbs the 1389 Battle of Kosovo was a physical defeat against the Ottoman Turks, but a moral victory that formed the backbone of Serbian national identity.