The UK Supreme Court’s judgment on Tuesday 24 September 2019 signifies a potential ‘judicial turn’ in British politics. Jack Dickens reflects upon the historical challenges and risks of a political judiciary.
Rome’s First Citizen brings peace to its territories.
There has been no shortage of historical events put forward to explain Britain’s current political crisis, but do any of them seriously inform debate?
How did the executed English nurse Edith Cavell become the unlikely protector of the German poet who pronounced her dead?
The First World War allowed women to distinguish themselves in professions previously closed to them.
How a government-sponsored network of civilian agents complemented Wellington's own intelligence gathering.
For many Americans, jazz was the music of demons, devils and things that go bump in the night.
What do the tyrants of the 20th century have in common? Terror, confusion and quasi-religious followings.
As a frontline soldier in the First World War, the German artist Otto Dix fell under the spell of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and his assault on Christian morality.
Hong Kong’s current extradition law crisis is not the first that the territory has faced.
