History Matters

Rhodesia’s ill-fated independence, 55 years on. 

Erasing women writers in the name of uplifting them. 

The ‘Angels of Mons’, a short story written in the earliest days of the First World War, became an enduring symbol of British providence.

How medieval manuscripts reveal the reading communities of the early Middle Ages.

Cuba’s built heritage owes a personal debt.

A Dutch conspiracy trial in the Indonesian archipelago gave birth to a sadly enduring English word.

Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges.

Kathryn Hadley examines the life and enduring influence of the French theologian 500 years after his birth.

The global crisis wrought by the First World War prompted the birth of free mental health care for the treatment of shell shock and ‘war neuroses’.