On Top of the World
R.I. Moore celebrates the life and achievements of John Roberts, leading scholar of world history.
R.I. Moore celebrates the life and achievements of John Roberts, leading scholar of world history.
September 14th, 1903
Peter Furtado previews a new exhibition devoted to J.M.W. Turner’s visits to the historic city in the first half of the 19th century.
Roman Golicz looks at English attitudes to Russia during the Eastern Crisis of 1870-78.
Did the British government suppress evidence that might have prevented Wallis Simpson’s divorce? Edward VIII’s marriage prompted changes to the law, but did it also break it?
The East India Company's army led by Arthur Wellesley defeated the Mahrattas at the Battle of Assaye on September 23rd, 1803.
John Cookson asks what might have happened had Napoleon actually landed on British soil in 1803-5.
William Rubinstein looks at a turning point in America’s national sport.
Antony Lockley examines the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and the propaganda battle between the Bolshevik and British forces on the Archangel front.
Ralph V. Turner considers how and why Magna Carta became a beacon of liberty in Britain and, increasingly, in the United States.