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Women played a minor role in the Easter Rising of 1916. But they became crucial intelligene agents in the Anglo-Irish War.
For 1,500 years, Western Europe ‘forgot’ how to swim, retreating from the water in terror. The return to swimming is a lesser-known triumph of the Enlightenment.
The dramatic events that shook Britain in the 17th century resonate more strongly than ever, despite attempts to marginalise them.
The West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt was an admirer of Britain from an early age. But his vision of European integration was not that of his British counterparts.
Combining grand narrative with vignettes of private lives and long-forgotten events, the last 500 years of Jewish life are told by a consummate master of his craft.
A geographical concept based on outdated European ideas of race – does 'Melanesia' exist?
Like a herald of lost Atlantis, Gregor MacGregor arrived in 19th-century London with news of a Central American utopia. Unfortunately, Poyais didn’t exist and its would-be emigrants found only a ‘sinister coast of disillusion’.
A lucid, entertaining history of France and its cultural contribution by an accomplished master of the grand narrative.
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Volume 68 Issue 7 July 2018
- When tuberculosis was fashionable
- Days of dissent in the DDR
- Taming Pocahontas
- The invisible countess
- A history of Melanesia
- Anglo-Saxon monsters