The Battle of Stalingrad, Norman Conquest, Executions in the Renaissance, Henrietta Maria, Trade Unions and Fascists, Puerto Rico, Goethe.
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Fleeing his father’s empire, an Afghan prince travelled from Kabul to Sindh via Mecca, becoming a fugitive, courtier and pilgrim in the process.
What relevance do the Norman Conquest and the events of 1066 have to contemporary British politics? Everything and nothing.
Early modern methods of execution were carefully calculated to inflict shame upon the condemned.
The Battle of Stalingrad began in August 1942, subjecting its residents to months of living hell. But few doubted that the city was worth defending; its significance to the Soviet project made it too important to abandon.
Dismissed as ‘high and mighty’ and accused of pushing Charles I towards civil war, Henrietta Maria was a deft military mover – perhaps more so than the king himself.
When Blackshirts took over an Italian ship and headed for Cardiff, trade unions held a boycott in what was the first British protest against fascism.
Once described as a ‘slow-motion car crash’, relations between Turkey – or Türkiye – and the rest of Europe have often been defined by suspicion and mistrust. Do historical grievances define the country’s relationship with Europe?
Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but this has not come without costs.
From alliances, to open warfare; from tense meetings on bridges, to collective mourning at family funerals: French and English royalty were united by marriage and divided by war.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its effect on the international politics of the late Cold War era.
Rude words are a constant, but their ability to cause offence is in flux. Historians should know their flim-flam from their fiddle-faddle.
Divining disaster at Aberfan and beyond, in subjects from nocebos to lost cosmonauts.
‘Looking at my native country from outside opened completely new ways of thinking.’
The question of reconstruction was a thorny issue in postwar Germany, where celebrations of the ‘glorious’ past took on a different hue.
Imperial maps of the Baltic provinces continue to shape how Russia views them today.
Puerto Rico’s future might be statehood, independence or more of the status quo, but change is unlikely to be won through voting alone.
The théâtrophone premiered in Paris, at the International Exposition of Electricity, on 11 August 1881.
A Mediterranean within the Mediterranean? Exploring the Adriatic as a single historical space.
