The Euro as a Unifier? An Extract from ‘Europe Isn’t Working’
‘The euro’s architects were building on shaky ground, to say the least’ British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson…
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Yale Summer Reading – Sneak Preview
‘Delectable, utterly brilliant and, in that hackneyed phrase, a must-read.’ – Nigella Lawson on Play All With time…
Massacre by John Merriman – A Scholar’s Perspective
One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an…
Aubrey Beardsley’s Feminism – An Illustrated Essay
by Linda Gertner Zatlin Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) and his sister Mabel (1871-1916) were close as children, a relationship…
The Past, Present, and Future of America and the Islamic World
The Past, Present, and Future of America and the Islamic World by Tarek Osman In 1801, the rulers…
How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World: A Timeline
EXPLORE THE TIMELINE Click ‘continue’, then drag the pink box on the timeline to explore Homintern: How Gay…
In Praise of Forgetting: The Easter Rising
April 2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, when a group of Irish nationalists staged a rebellion…
Lawrence of Arabia’s War – An Introduction by Neil Faulkner
‘A misfit and maverick, a romantic and orientalist, an archaeologist and wartime intelligence officer, he was perhaps a…
The Secret Poisoner: Interview with Linda Stratmann
The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder by Linda Stratmann – a BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice –…
Easter & Medieval Food – by Chris Woolgar
Easter and Medieval Food by Chris Woolgar, author of The Culture of Food in England, 1200–1500 Chocolate eggs,…
The Secret Poisoner: An Extract
The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder by Linda Stratmann – a BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice –…
The Secret Poisoner: An Introduction
Linda Stratmann‘s latest book – and BBC Radio 2 Book Club’s recent choice – The Secret Poisoner: A Century…
The Last Days of Stalin: An Extract
‘Genghis Khan with a telephone.’ On 5 March 2016 it will be 63 years since the death of…
Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen
‘Edwards has comprehensively defeated a persistent and painful historical myth and replaced it with something more complicated, more…
The Rise & Fall of the Angevin Empire – by Richard Huscroft
‘The history of the Angevin Empire is not just one of kings, queens, warlords and saints.’ Author of…