Taken from two eight-volume enterprises marking the coming of age of African history, Michael Crowder looks at the African reactions to the European colonial presence, rather than with the doings of the Europeans themselves.
A new booklet on the Ministry of Information and its wartime messages to the British public.
The defeat of the Ottoman army outside the gates of Vienna in 1683 is usually regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Ottoman Empire. But how significant was it really, and for whom?
Lyndal Roper finds a new book on the German uprising essential reading
The Hundred Years War was fought on French soil. What effects did this have on the lives of the rural French communities?
David French presents an overview of the historiography on the subject.
John Keegan reflects on the motives for war throughout human history.
'War, far from being an exact science, is a terrible and impassioned drama' wrote Baron de Jomini in 1862. John Keegan argues that it is this drama that military historians must confront in their probe into man's past.
Denis Judd reviews an infamous episode in 1895 in the Transvaal.
Paul Preston looks at the historiography of the Spanish Civil War.
