History: Specific Events & Topics

In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was 'stable' and immune from revolt. In the months that followed,...

One hundred years on, it is hard to imagine the violent disruption caused by the suffragette movement. After a century of peaceful protest had brou...

Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation...

Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on child...

Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama War in Southwest Africa, and the Maji Maji ...

Radical Housewives is a history of Canadas Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based womens organization with ties t...

The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's greatest question marks. His Satires entered the mainstream of the classical tradition with nothing...

Want to photograph lions and elephants in Africa, Formula One cars at the Monaco Grand Prix, front-line military jets or to step back in time and ...