Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become…
European History
Nazi Germany and Modernist art
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. During the war, the arts were closely…
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day by Guy Cuthbertson – An Extract
Armistice Day was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. In…
Mussolini and Hitler – Christian Goeschel
Christian Goeschel- On 20 July 1944, a bomb exploded in the Wolf’s Lair, Adolf Hitler’s East Prussian Headquarters….
Five Things You Might Not Know About London’s Maritime History
Margarette Lincoln offers five things that you may not know about London’s maritime world in the age of…
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Scott H. Hendrix
It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle…
Five Characteristics of a Witch – An Extract by Ronald Hutton
Witches can be defined, quite legitimately, in a number of different ways in the present world. What follows…
Crime & Violence Through the Office of the Coroner – Matthew Lockwood
Matthew Lockwood offers a fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of…
Hitler’s Obsession with the Occult – by Eric Kurlander
The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Heinrich Himmler’s personal…
Praetorian by Guy de la Bédoyère – an extract
In his latest work, Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard, Guy de la Bédoyère traces the…
The private life of Il Duce: Mussolini and his last lover Claretta Petacci – by R. J. B. Bosworth
Italian’s fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, and his young mistress Claretta Petacci, are the subject of Claretta, R.J.B. Bosworth’s most…
Civil Wars by David Armitage – An Extract
For much of recorded history, the most frequent, horrific, destructive and yet strangely overshadowed form of collective human…
The First Victory: An Introduction
Andrew Stewart introduces his new book The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign,…
The Future of European Muslims – An Essay by Tarek Osman
In recent months, the rise of far-right parties in different European countries and events such as the UK’s…
Accidental Circumnavigators: A story of anonymous sailors, soldiers, slaves, missionaries & adventurers
Harry Kelsey’s new book The First Circumnavigators contains fascinating stories of treachery, greed, murder, desertion and disaster, but also shows…