On the Spot: Gene A. Jarrett
‘Being a careful analyst of history can help anticipate trends in the present and future.’
History Today
Gutter Press
Why did newspapers maintain a policy of isolationism in the midst of a world embroiled in war?
In the Penal Colony
Managing political enemies through forced exile and penal colonisation.
Hong Kong Emigrants and the National Security Law
Hong Kong’s ‘one country, two systems’ policy was boldly pragmatic, but it was not the first time such an idea had been tried – nor the first time that it failed.
Illustrious Ancestors
What are the origins of Hungary’s obsession with Turanism?
Is Algeria Still Defined by its Liberation Struggle?
Over 60 years after escaping French rule, Algerian memory of the War of Independence remains a thorny issue.
Professor Ptthmllnsprts Versus Old Bones
The Water-Babies was a fairytale that straddled religion and science, railing against logical rationality in the face of nature’s mysteries.
Love on the Wire
The advent of telecommunications gave rise to a new literary genre through which female telegraphers and writers found social freedoms.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...
Historians often take creative liberties when setting the scene, but at what point does it become misleading?
The Berbice Rebellion
Uncovering the stories of the enslaved men and women who fought off the Dutch and their European allies in 1763.