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The kidnap of Bennelong, 25 November 1789, William Bradley, 1802. State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain. Growing up ...
In The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 Jonathan Healey holds Juntos and ‘jittery times’ responsible for England’s ...
When Francisco Franco died in November 1975 the enduring image of the country he had ruled for almost four decades was of a ...
The wine trade in medieval Tunis was lucrative, but it caused a moral quandary for the ruling Hafsids.
Depending on one’s vantage point, the meaning of the French Revolution varies. The First Republic succumbed to an imperial ...
Industrial Birmingham was an important stop on the grand tours of various Muslim rulers, all eager to learn from the city of a thousand trades.
A routine Native American cattle round-up at the US-Mexico border in 1898 became an international incident.
The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington looks beyond the warming ...
On 17 June 1940, when Marshal Pétain surrendered France to the Nazis, 49-year-old General Charles de Gaulle was in London. The next day he made a broadcast on the BBC: ‘Whatever happens, the flame of ...
In the early 20th century few political issues inspired such passion and vitriol in the United Kingdom as whether to impose tariffs on imported goods. An apparently esoteric issue of high-level fiscal ...
Though his relics are reviled, his impact is more keenly felt than ever. Can The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes by ...
Ironically, when we speak about inquisitions, people have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition. But inquisitions into the beliefs and behaviours of the laity started in earnest more than two ...