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

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

The implementation of Stalinist industrialisation, between 1928 and 1941, transformed the Soviet economy into a modern economic...

Thomas More’s 1515 text Utopia (fully titled On the Best State of a Commonwealth and on the New Island of Utopia) has become one of the...

Introduction: In the wake of Stalin’s death, the Soviet Union witnessed a power struggle at the top of the Central Committee. This saw...

The Spanish Empire at its height spanned most of the American continent, from California to the southernmost reaches of Chile, and...

Charles of Anjou is a controversial figure in Medieval history. Remembered for the Sicilian Vespers in 1282 and the subsequent loss of...

The genocide of the European Jews is an issue debated in much historiography – through opposing schools of thoughts arguing for an...

During the period between late nineteenth century and the end of the Second World War, science became a tool for categorizing and...

The most common historiographical stance regarding early modern revolts is that rebels were motivated by ‘blind rage’ and their actions...

Ideas and practices of the Roman elite undeniably altered and informed the design and decoration of their houses and villas. Whilst the...