Remembering Dalit Women In the early 19th century, the East India Company established British rule in Maharashtra, ushering in the...

In a phenomenon historian David Courtwright termed the "psychoactive revolution," the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the...

The most recent major addition to the popular cultural canon of the Napoleonic period is, at the time of writing, Ridley Scott’s...

In the intricate dance between memory and history, each partner influences and reshapes the other. This essay discusses the complexities...

Anyone who claims that an historical event was formative must necessarily assume that things would have turned out differently if that...

I cannot say more, only that from nothing I have created a new different world János Bolyai, letter to Farkas Bolyai describing his...

This essay argues that mainstream psychiatrists and physicians between 1860 to 1900 conceptualised Black women (both those inside and...

To what extent are mental illnesses the product of human culture? Western practices have ensured that psychiatrists are now able to...

During the twentieth century, England saw a dramatic increase in rates of immigration from parts of the Commonwealth, primarily due to...

Studying the explosion of vernacular literature is fundamentally important to historians of the Middle Ages because it informs them about...

During the early modern period, gender issues within society caused the criminal justice system and its authorities to target those who...

Note: all underlines or italics within quotes are the authors’ own unless otherwise stated Nazi Germany is often thought of as the...

Foucault’s volumes on the history of sexuality have been immensely influential in modern understandings of sexuality in the ancient...

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries British merchants, diplomats and soldiers attempted to break into China by a number of...

Introduction Leading scholars of inequality today, such as Branko Milanovic[1] or Frank Stilwell[2] amongst others, tend to structure...

Introduction In 168 BC, the Seleukid king, Antiokhos IV, stood victorious at the head of an army which had breached Ptolemaic defences,...

Upon the collapse of the Tsarist regime in Russia in 1917, the Bolsheviks were tasked with confronting the ‘national question’ - that is,...

In the period between the conquest of Constantinople and the end of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire rapidly increased in...

It is an undisputable fact that enslaved Africans were put through violent, horrific practices in all areas of enslavement. Some...

No one can deny that the Napoleonic Wars represented a turning point for the Russian Empire. Not only did the so-called Great Patriotic...