Louis the Pious and the Medieval Euro
Though the European single currency may seem modern, its roots go back to the 9th-century Christiana religio coins of Louis the Pious.
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Cultures of the tropical forest, both past and present.
Victorian Cricket and Corruption
Bribery scandals in cricket are nothing new. England’s 1882 tour of Australia soon brought the most respectable of sports into disrepute.
Parting of the Ways
Lucy Chester examines the processes by which the Indo-Pakistan border was drawn, dividing a single country into two.
Auschwitz and the British
When did the British government know of the true role of Auschwitz-Birkenau in the ‘Final Solution’?
La Lutte Continue ...? Contemporary History and Algeria
The contribution of the witnesses from the Battle of Algiers to the debate on contemporary history.
Conserving Estonia in the New Europe
Merlin Waterson looks at how the newly-independent Estonia is recovering its heritage.
The Dockers Who Won
John Crossland looks at the Dock Strike that succeeded in 1889.
The Xi’an Incident: The Beginning of the End for Chiang Kai-shek
The Xi'an Incident, a tragi-comic sequence of mutiny and kidnapping, marked a crucial stage in the struggle between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists.
D-Day Propaganda
Caroline Reed looks at the propaganda campaigns accompanying the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944.