Charles I’s affair with France, Crime in 18th century Philadelphia, Women and the Marriage Bar, The Hidden History of Black Diplomacy, Facial Surgery and Prostheses in early modern society.
Plus: Soviet letters, ayahs, reviews, opinion, crossword and much more!
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If the study of history has a future, it must look beyond the near horizon, in space and time.
‘No genre reveals as much about the human condition as military history.’
Exploring the important, but elusive, diplomatic role played by people of African descent in early modern Europe.
Britain has been a high inequality, high poverty nation for most of the last 200 years.
The aim of Charles I’s foreign policy was to restore his nephew’s lands in the Rhineland. France, he thought, was the key to success.
The fact that lobsters ‘walked’ on their claws puzzled even Aristotle. He had to employ all his deductive genius to explain why.
As we take stock of the past year, the most famous event in English history reminds us of our inability to foresee the future.
Camillo Agrippa, author of Trattato di scientia d’arme, died on 1 January 1600.
Work was once deemed suitable for women only until they married. And it was not just men who thought that should be the case.
The ayah is a familiar figure of the Raj. While new research shows they were much less common than once thought, it has also shed fresh light on their lives and experiences.
At its founding, Pennsylvania had one of the most tolerant criminal law systems in the world, but by the middle of the 18th century its capital Philadelphia was a ‘hell of the officials and preachers’.
The end of the affair of two legendary lovers sees a deadly destiny fulfilled.
Four historians consider whether the traditional Whig history of Britain, as one of evolutionary political progress, has ever been challenged by events.
Recently discovered papyri give unprecedented insight into the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Renaissance face provided clues about the wealth and health of its owner. Those who had been disfigured were often mistreated, but to alter one’s appearance carried a stigma of its own.
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In 1935 Stalin declared ‘life has become better’. This was clearly not the case for everyone, but feelings had to be expressed very carefully.
Reporting from the frontlines of the mujahideen war against the Soviet Union.
Inspired by the fashion for Boy Scout groups, Lord Beaverbrook started his own youth movement in support of his pro-Empire campaign.
A ringside seat to British domestic politics, from Chamberlain’s meeting with Hitler in October 1938 to the fall of Mussolini in July 1943.
