History Matters

In 1935 Turkmen farmers rode their horses 4,300 kilometres across the Soviet Union to impress Moscow.

The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries.

Sailors looking for work in the 19th century risked getting crimped – or shanghaied – and caught in a whirlpool of exploitation and corruption.

During the Kenya Emergency, white women took up arms against the Mau Mau rebels. What did it mean to be both domestic and violent?

As advances in Soviet science in the 1950s were published in Russian, English-speaking scientists risked getting left behind.

This month marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved people in the English Caribbean.

Indian teams besting British sides on the polo field threatened to undermine the colonial enterprise.

Often dismissed as a myth, was there a real man behind the legend of King Arthur?

In 1753 the journey of a minor Jewish naturalisation Act through Parliament prompted an outsized furore. 

Did live gibbeting ever take place in Britain? For the Victorians, the macabre question was a pressing one.