Brutus: Character Assassination

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The man who conspired to kill Julius Caesar was not quite the friend to Romans and countrymen that his legendary st...

Charlemagne, Muhammad and the Fall of Rome

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Charlemagne, Muhammad and the Fall of Rome By Conrad Leyser Henri Pirenne transformed the way historian...

The Rehabilitation of Charles I

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The myths that surround the ultimately tragic rule of Charles I mask the realities of a courageous and uxorious kin...

Cake News

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Cake News By Paul Lay A lack of historical knowledge is easily exploited in the fractious world of soci...

Iran: Cold War Crucible

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Iran: Cold War Crucible By Rowena Abdul Razak During the Second World War, Britain, the US and the Sovi...

Théodore Tronchin, Doctor to the Stars

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Théodore Tronchin, Doctor to the Stars By Giacomo Lorandi In the fashionable female circles of 18th-cen...

Pirates: Hard, Violent, Unpredictable

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Pirates captured by an increasingly powerful British state were routinely executed. But what happened to the famili...

A World Revealed: Islamic Heartlands of the 18th century

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The chance survival of a ‘postbag’ of letters reveals a lost world of merchants, pilgrims, bankers and scholars. ...

The History of Dyslexia

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J ‘Word blindness’ was a recognised condition more than a century ago. But it was not until the 1970s that it began t...

A New Line in Empire

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A New Line in Empire By Paul Lay Though much of the West has withdrawn from empire, one of the world’s ...

On the Spot: Daniel Beer

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J On the Spot: Daniel Beer By Daniel Beer The historian of Russia on Dostoevsky, Foucault and sympathy fo...

Shining a Light on Darkness

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Shining a Light on Darkness By Suzannah Lipscomb Sexual exploitation by powerful men has a long history...

Slips of the Tongue

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Slips of the Tongue By Alexander Lee Historians set great store by what people heard in the past, but w...

Kyoto, c.1626

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Kyoto, c.1626 By Kate Wiles A map of the Japanese city from the Edo period was one of the earliest prod...

Soviet Spy Swap

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Soviet Spy Swap By Chris Bissell Gerald Brooke’s time in a Soviet prison was a pivotal moment in Cold W...

In Defiance of her Golden Age

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In Defiance of her Golden Age By Sophia L. Deboick Lucie Delarue-Mardrus was at the heart of daring int...