Reviews

A former editor of History Today looks back on a life mixing the personal and the political.

The Indonesian genocide of 1965 has been smothered in silence for half a century.

Sweet it may be, but sugar's story is a bitter one, embracing slavery, decay and obesity.

The Crucifixion is at the heart of Christianity and has inspired countless images and experiences.

The mass expulsion of Spain’s Islamic population is laid bare by Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 by Matthew Carr.

History suggests that closer collaboration and rradical new thinking between the central state and Cooperativisim could yet yield positive results. 

Competing narratives on Churchill’s role in the tragedy of Gallipoli have confused the man with the myth.

How did Charles V, Francis I, Suleiman the Magnificent and Henry VIII rule the lands and seas of Europe?

The central paradox to the story of Adam and Even is that, the more reality they take on, the more they are shown to be fiction.

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, five books track its transition from idealism to tyranny.