Napoleon: The Myth
A.D. Harvey looks at the enduring myth surrounding one of history’s ‘Great Men’, and how he dominated the nineteenth-century imagination outside France.
History Today
Sakhalin: the Japanese Under Soviet Rule
Mariya Sevela gathers oral recollections from the people of Karafuto, a Japanese colony on the island of Sakhalin from 1905 until the arrival of the Soviet army forty years later.
Birth of Lewis Carroll
The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was born on January 27th, 1832.
A Year of European Revolutions
The Sicilian Uprising of January 12th, 1848 was the first of several European revolutions.
EMU: The First Time Around
Martin Dedman recalls the background to European Monetary Union.
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
Dirk Bennett sheds new light on the origin and history of chariot racing as a sport, and explores its popular and political role from pre-classical Greece to the fall of the Roman Empire.
John Wilkes Dies
December 26th, 1797
Laughing at the Learned
Penelope Corfield shows that ridiculing the learned professions is not a new thing.
Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire
Richard Cavendish visits Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire.
Images of Acadia
Adrian Mourby reflects on the legacy of Nova Scotia's French Acadians.