Cold War Yugoslavia, Oswald of Northumbria, the wreck of the Spanish treasure ship San José, educating the Maharaja of Travancore, understanding the Aurora Borealis, and more.
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During the Cold War successive British governments did all they could to maintain a friendship with Tito’s Yugoslavia. Why was the communist strongman so important to Westminster?
It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of its kind.
The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved incredibly popular in the medieval German-speaking world. How did he get there?
The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of Travancore discovered.
Since 1708 there has been vicious competition over the Spanish treasure galleon San José, its cargo, and, now, its sunken remains.
75 years is a long time in public history: the bridge between academia and the general reader appears to have widened since History Today was launched, but in what ways?
When the aurora borealis appeared in the skies of 18th-century Europe, Enlightenment scientists first turned to history to understand it.
