Anthony Rhodes introduces Diocletian, the first sovereign to voluntarily resign power, and how, at the opening of the fourth century, he spent his last years in a huge fortified seaside palace of his own construction.
Richard Harris describes the various forces of change at play in China's tumultuous first half century.
Roger L. Williams assesses exactly how enlightened a despot was Louis-Napoléon, in light of later European events.
Graham Dukes traces the birth of the press to the English Civil War period.
No memorials of the past are more fantastic than the series of great statues—some of them as tall as a four-storey building—that greet the visitor to this lonely and storm-swept Pacific island. By C.A. Burland.
David Footman assesses the death and legacy of a White Russian leader.
Michael Grant tells how, some 1000 years ago, the “Scourge of God” died on his wedding night.
C.R. Boxer recalls “the time of the Flemings” (Tempo dos Flamengos), as the period of the Dutch occupation of Pernambuco province in Brazil used to be called.
Alfred Cobban traces the ups and downs of the quintessential Bourbon king of France.
Why did the Chinese Emperor Wu send a military expedition to Ta Yüan in 102 BC to capture the ‘Heavenly Horses’?
