History

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a w...

When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of m...

It was theology against politics. Ordinary men against changing systems of government and belief, fighting for what they believed was right. The Bl...

Life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland

The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as ...

Over five hundred men from Meath died in the Great War. One hundred of those men were from Navan. Twenty Meath families lost more than one member i...

Hong Kong was first captured on camera when the British arrived to lay claim to its fragrant harbour in 1841. Its fascinating history has been docu...

The claim, often made, that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according to...

The Boer War was a costly colonial conflict between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics in South Africa. Pitting the superior...

Undaunted is a collection of true stories about Irish men and women who travelled to Australia in search of a better life and battled against the o...

The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the...

The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth centuryits two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great them...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekIt's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time.Ostend, 1936: the...

In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that...

In 1940, Britain stood bravely against the full power of Nazi Germany. But while military campaigns unfolded in distant parts of the world, million...

The British Beach Groups were a combined force of men stationed on the Normandy Beaches from the initial landing until the last unit was disbanded ...

The time has come now, Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a Proclamation of Emancipation. Lincoln's effort t...

The sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 1518 April 2015 at the University of Oxford and once again provided...

The 1970s are noted as the decade of strikes, the winter of discontent and the three-day week. But is this the full story; what was it really like ...

In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for...

The Tang dynasty is often called Chinas golden age, a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian...

The first modern frogmen were the Italian commando frogmen, of Decima Flottiglia MAS which was first in action in 1940. They were nicknamed Uomini ...

Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most celebrated artworks in Chi...

Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back...

Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book is the first to...

This book explores changes in the nature of the relationship between play, media and commercial culture through a comparison of play in the 1950s/6...

One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films. Torn between the powerful isolatio...

When Hernan Cortes met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact between the peo...

Of the five beaches attacked on 6 June, Omaha saw the sternest fighting. Well-placed defenders on the high ground and extensive beach defenses did ...

A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war. Pulled from a dark ocean after a battle a...

The Great War transformed the Middle East, bringing to an end four hundred years of Ottoman rule in Arab lands while giving rise to the Middle East...

Thunderbolt to War gives a remarkable insight into the structure and operations of a leading USAAF Fighter Squadron in England during the Second Wo...

Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadershipthis is the fiction that shaped African American cult...

Tumuli were the most widespread form of monumental tombs in the ancient world. Their impact on landscape, their allurement as well as their symboli...

Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstandi...

The Battle of Bannockburn is the most celebrated battle in history between Scotland and England. Fought over two days on 23 and 24 June 1314 by a s...

Missions Impossible: History's Most Daring Moments reveals stories of amazing acts of heroism, self-sacrifice, endurance, and sheer grit that in ma...

Notoriously Militant is a primer on worker militancy. 'Ordinary' workers made history every day, through direct democracy and members' activity in...