In the 1970s private investigators in the UK came under attack for their distasteful methods and dubious legality. What did ...
In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...
In the 15th century Iceland was caught in a trade war between the Kalmar Union, the Hanseatic League, and England. Which ...
A fter months of diplomatic wrangling, national security reviews, and political infighting, on 20 January 2026 the UK ...
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...
As Spain and France moved into Morocco, the people of the Rif Mountains united to form a new state. For five years they ...
If all the world’s a stage, argues Indira Ghose in A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England, ...
The discovery of Brazil was an episode in the creation of a Portuguese commercial empire which in less than a hundred years extended to four continents. The Portuguese established West African coastal ...
Marie Tussaud was 89 and one of the 19th century’s most successful career women when she died at her London home in Baker Street. Surviving a dangerous and singularly gruesome past, she had made ...
On 19 June 1867, Ferdinand Maximilian faced a firing squad in Mexico. At five in the morning, he heard mass and then had breakfast. Shortly afterwards, carriages arrived to take him and two other ...
For nine days in 1926 the United Kingdom was gripped by the first and only general strike in its history. Between 4-12 May more than two million workers downed tools in sympathy with members of the ...
When Bolesław Chrobry, ‘the Brave’, succeeded to the Duchy of Poland in 992 he inherited a state both newly minted and newly Christianised by his father, Mieszko I. But it wasn’t yet a kingdom. At the ...
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