British military engagement in northwest Europe did not pause after Waterloo and resume in 1914. The intervening century saw fluctuations in French power – and the creation of a strategic system to control it.
On 5 July 1852 the curtain was raised on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa.
America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story of the United States.
In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.
The Earth was created in seven days. On which day were the dinosaurs made? Discoveries in geology and palaeontology forced Victorian creationists to be especially creative.
Arsenic was a hidden killer in Victorian homes, but it also played a large part in the British economy. Which comes first: commerce or public health?
On 11 May 1891 the future Tsar Nicholas II narrowly escaped assassination on a trip to Japan.
Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. Is there more to the story?
Over the 18th and 19th centuries Britain’s economy, technology, and society were transformed by the so-called Industrial Revolution. Why?
The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw himself as a puppet-master, engineering British politics from afar in his feud with Gladstone.
