Reviews

The histories of sixteen great cathedrals from Hagia Sophia to Santa Maria del Fiore.

A new interpretation of the appeasement story.

The industry, enlightenment, history and soft-power of Birmingham.

The continuity and contextualisation of German military history across five centuries.

Admiring the world’s most famous ceiling.

Does silence endure in Italy over Mussolini’s murderous regime?

The courtroom drama, executions, and street pageantry of the so-called ‘Popish Plot’.

Uprisings, strikes, protests and massacres in South Africa, from the Boer War to the present day.

A uniquely personal take on the transfer of power in Hong Kong.

Was the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson the ‘murder that triggered the Irish Civil War’?