Paul Dukes

Paul Dukes explores some of Hungary’s turbulent history and culture dating back to the thirteenth century.

Paul Dukes sets the scene for a series of articles on the rise of Russia from the seventeenth century.

Paul Dukes interprets the heritage of China in the context of global history

Paul Dukes urges the need to widen our vision of the past by adopting the perspective of world history.

Paul Dukes on a comprehensive new life of Rasputin

Dracula, the vampire that haunts our dreams, is the one created by the 19th-century author, Bram Stoker: but, as Paul Dukes explains here, there is a basis in fact and eastern European legend for the ghoul.

'The cult of personality' means that for the West Stalin personified the arbitrary terror of the Soviet regime: yet he must also stand for the USSR's greatest achievements of modernisation and industrialisation, argues Paul Dukes. 

An introduction by Paul Dukes to two articles on Celtic immigration to the New World.