Moscow’s Divide and Rule
The Ukrainian-Polish border is a symbol of both international solidarity and the continuing threat that xenophobia poses to the European project.
History Today
The Black Legend of the House of Dudley
Three generations of the cursed House of Dudley stained the executioner’s block in 16th-century England. Were its members murderous villains working to overthrow the Tudor crown, or shrewd political agents struggling to survive?
When the World Came to Shanghai
In the 1930s several prominent Black intellectuals visited Shanghai, bringing politics, culture and anti-colonial fervour with them.
The Murder of Hintsa
The death and mutilation of the chief of the Xhosa in 1835 at the hands of the British was a ‘barbarous’ deed, concealed by the perpetrators in a web of lies.
Mind the Authority Gap
History books by men are bought in far greater quantities than those by women. Why?
History of a Memory
The curation, control and censorship of the life of the elusive St Ambrose.
Fools at Court
People with learning or physical disabilities occasionally had unique opportunities in Tudor society.
Beware the Milkmen
A history of the dirty business of wiretapping.
Medusa
A tale of female revenge, power and solidarity.
A Medical Break Through
The physician James Parkinson, who lent his name to the medical condition he defined, was born on 11 April 1755.