Dunsterforce was the result. The mission was an exceptionally challenging one, but Britain’s military planners believed they ...

What makes a state? Is it its people, its borders, its government, or does it rest on recognition from international powers? Across the 19th and 20th centuries, the process by which states have been ...

In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...

On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.

On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of London and a constituency in Middlesex open to returning a demagogue whose ...

A t the core of environmental history lies a simple feedback loop: that humanity and the environment are in a perpetual and ...

The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in the 1950s.

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski is Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at UCL and Principal Historian of the Polish History ...

Knell continuing his attack as before, so maliciously and furiously, and Towne … to save his life drew his sword of iron ...

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s by Thant Myint-U captures the optimism and ambition ...

The kings of medieval France were fascinated by the Mongols, who they saw as great empire builders. Eager to learn more, they ...

One of history’s great journeys began in October 1934 and ended a year later after covering a distance variously estimated at between 3,000 and 8,000 miles across China. Figures for the numbers ...