Europe

Debra Higgs Strickland examines the extraordinary demonology of medieval Christendom and the way it endowed strangers and enemies with monstrous qualities.

David Braund re-examines what we know about Britain at the time of the Roman invasions.

Edgar Feuchtwanger examines the controversial issue of change and continuity in the foreign policies of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

Sean McGlynn puts the present-day European Union into historical perspective.

Was Britain's reputation as the champion of Italian independence really warranted? Giuseppe Garibaldi was undoubtedly popular with Britons, but Peter Clements is sceptical.

The warship Implacable was scuttled on December 2nd, 1949.

Cressida Trew, winner of this year's Julia Wood Essay Prize, shows that Polish historians under political duress and with the need to forge a positive national identity have denied rather than confronted the Holocaust. 

John Gardiner searches for the historical moment when our Victorian forebears went missing from the popular consciousness.

October 31st, 1899

Jim Kelsey uncovers a unique Anglo-Saxon collection, enabled by a supportive local council.