We are Family
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.
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Cuban Perestroika
Tracing the decline of socialism through the lives of ordinary Cubans.
You and Whose Army?
Civil War politics amongst MPs and the New Model Army.
Return of the Marcos
A history of the Philippines’ 7,000 islands from the pre-colonial era to the present day.
Behind Closed Doors
The entwined lives and relationships of William and Jane Morris.
Gutter Press
Why did newspapers maintain a policy of isolationism in the midst of a world embroiled in war?
In the Penal Colony
Managing political enemies through forced exile and penal colonisation.
Illustrious Ancestors
What are the origins of Hungary’s obsession with Turanism?
The Berbice Rebellion
Uncovering the stories of the enslaved men and women who fought off the Dutch and their European allies in 1763.
Latest History Books
Magellan, schizophrenia, conspiracies and Europe’s indigenous Muslims: a roundup of some of the latest history books.