The Nuclear Taboo
The need to preserve alliances was a compelling reason not to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
The need to preserve alliances was a compelling reason not to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
The Dutch role in the slave trade cannot be dismissed as a matter of numbers.
The views and actions of the man who tried to kill Hitler.
At what point does memoir become biography and biography become history?
A new treaty on the governance of Antarctica, signed in 1959, became a trailblazing model for the world. But the future of the ‘white continent’ remains contentious.
What’s the most important lesson history has taught me? To try to see things from multiple angles.
A French medieval historian, who served his country in both world wars, helped pioneer a new approach to history in between them.
The lore and history of knitting in the British Isles.
To whom should one pledge fealty? Lord, king, brother or nation?
What took ten years in Poland took ten days in Czechoslovakia. But, as some Czechs would discover, not all revolutions are equal.