There’s a World Out There
If Covid-19 has taught us anything it is that the West – and that includes its historians – must expand its horizons.
History Today
Dissonant Horn
Ethiopia’s current crisis is rooted in a long history of regional and ethnic defiance towards the political centre.
Execution of the Tailor-King
The bodies of Jan Bockelson, and two other leaders of the Anabaptist sect, were hung outside the church of St Lambert on 22 January 1536.
The Failure of Elizabeth I’s English Armada
In the wake of the Spanish Armada, Elizabethan England sought retaliation by launching an invasion of its own. But how to finance such a venture?
In the Shadow of Angkor
The ruined temples of Cambodia’s medieval empire became symbols of a people who had forgotten their history. In reality, they demonstrate an inherent continuity.
To Frame a Painter
A society portraitist who emigrated to Britain from Hungary found himself embroiled in a drama of divided loyalties during the First World War.
Rules of Engagement
A study of war through the ages.
Laocoön
A warning is ignored and a city falls in El Greco’s lurid depiction.
Backing Tyranny
The consequences of the German aristocracy’s Faustian pact.
Belarus Remembers
Belarusian memory of the Second World War once helped legitimise the Lukashenka regime. Now it is undermining it.