How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...

In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary ...

‘The risks are acute when we turn to traditional periodisations’ Levi Roach is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter There can be no doubt that monarchs bulk inordinately large in ...

On 11 April 1942, during one of Hitler’s habitual monologues before his inner circle at the ‘Wolf’s Lair’ headquarters in East Prussia, talk turned to Alfred Rosenberg’s book The Myth of the Twentieth ...

In the summer of 1668 commissioners of the Swedish Lutheran Church arrived in the parish of Maarja-Magdaleena in northern Estonia. On Midsummer’s Eve (23 June) the commissioners witnessed how the ...

Marx is important to the historian in three different aspects – as an historian himself, as a philosopher of history, and as an historical figure. Here I propose to confine myself largely to the ...

‘W ar Spirit High in Italian Reservists’ read a headline in the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York on 25 May 1915. Two days later the Vancouver Daily World proclaimed: ‘Local Italians Keen ...

Robert Darnton’s new book revisits classic debates regarding the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution by exploring the literary world of late 18th-century France.

Robert Hole shows how important historical context is for an understanding of the most significant document in American history. Robert Hole examines the often misunderstood careers of Lorenzo the ...

How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...

On 5 July 1852 the curtain came down on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa.