History: Specific Events & Topics

The Royal Armouries stunning collection of arms and armour provides a unique historical perspective on visual and material culture from across the ...

In this major new collection, an international team of scholars examine the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press and global mo...

Following times of great conflict and tragedy, many countries implement programs and policies of transitional justice, none more extensive than in ...

Mahoney examines how members of the middle class from small cities across the great West were transformed by boom and bust, years of recession, and...

In contrast to the voluminous literature on trench warfare, few scholarly works have been written on how the First World War was experienced at sea...

Nineteenth-century Ottoman politics was filled with casual references to public opinion. Having been popularised as a term in the 1860s, the follow...

In writings about Islam, women and modernity in the Middle East, family and religion are frequently invoked but rarely historicized. Based on a wid...