Themes

Agricultural
Archaeology
Architecture
Art
Astronomy
Aviation
Cartography
Christianity
Civil Rights
Communism
Crime
Cultural
Decolonisation
Economic History
Education
Empire
Environmental History
Fascism
Fashion
Film & TV
Food & Drink
Gender
Historical Memory
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Historiography
Islam
Judaism
Literature
Maritime
Medicine & Disease
Military
Monasticism
Museums
W.S. Gilbert, 1878
Music
Natural History
Philosophy
Photography
Piracy
Political
Population
Religion
Science & Technology
Slavery & Abolition
Social
Social Classes
Sport

The Rise of the Teutonic Knights
Steatite seal from the Indus valley, c.2500 BC. The script is still undeciphered.
The Greatest Civilisation Ever Forgotten?
Haile Selassie with his troops, October 1935.
Abyssinia out of the Shadows
Arabia and India, from the Miller Atlas, Portugal, c.1519.
The First Global Empire
German soldiers talk to a Muslim woman in Mostar, Herzegovina, 1944.
Muslims in Hitler's War
‘The Murder of Richard Hunne’ in a woodcut from a 16th-century edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments.
Death at St Paul's