When the United States’ table tennis team was invited to China in 1971, the trip was about far more than sporting competition. Dubbed ‘ping-pong diplomacy’, it heralded a thaw in diplomatic relations between the two nations.
Robert Burton’s encyclopedic curiosity The Anatomy of Melancholy continues to offer remarkable insights into mental health.
The moral authority Britain gained during the First World War was undermined by the behaviour of the Crown Forces during the Irish War of Independence.
John Brown, the abolitionist firebrand, remains a potent figure in the United States’ febrile politics of race.
A classic work of history, now 20 years old, reminds us of the power of continuing education for all.
A signature in a collection of autographs reveals a story of Indigenous service that extends from Australia to Canada and Trinidad.
Revolutionary soldier or tyrannical emperor? The question is as pertinent now as when Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on remote Saint Helena in 1821.
In the aftermath of the Reformation, the authority of the pope depended ever more upon the will of the people.
Indigenous peoples in the West of the United States continued to be held in bondage long after the abolition of plantation slavery in the South.
