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Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world.

The military elite of the medieval and early modern Muslim world consisted of men who had been captured and forced into service. But to what extent were the janissaries and their predecessors subject to slavery?

The Strait of Hormuz became a fraught passage in the Tanker War between Iran and Iraq. Nevertheless, the oil continued to flow.

Starvation and disease killed millions in British India during the Second World War. Why?

In an age of political and religious division that ended in Civil War, Lucius Cary and his circle at Great Tew offered a space for debate and compromise.

The role of women in the Ku Klux Klan is often neglected, but they were key players at all levels.

Despite the religious rupture caused by the Reformation, fear of the Apocalypse remained common to both sides of western Christendom. But older, classical ideas of an eternal return were at work, too.

Events in the Baltic States at the end of the First World War had serious long-term consequences.