The Russian Civil War and the Evolution of Soviet Terror
Anyone who claims that an historical event was formative must necessarily assume that things would have turned out differently if that...
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Callum Tilley
Sep 1, 202317 min read
Historiographical Debates About Nazi Repression and Ordinary Complicity in the Third Reich
Note: all underlines or italics within quotes are the authors’ own unless otherwise stated Nazi Germany is often thought of as the...
Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
Apr 28, 202316 min read
Enemy of my Enemy: King Mithradates VI of Pontos and his alternative model of Hellenistic kingship
Introduction In 168 BC, the Seleukid king, Antiokhos IV, stood victorious at the head of an army which had breached Ptolemaic defences,...
Will Kingston-Cox
Apr 15, 202317 min read
To what extent did Stalin’s nationality policy in the South Caucasus differ by ethnic group?
Upon the collapse of the Tsarist regime in Russia in 1917, the Bolsheviks were tasked with confronting the ‘national question’ - that is,...
Dorothy Greene
Apr 15, 202310 min read
'Shari'a and Kanun: A Study of the Ottoman Empire's Legal System
In the period between the conquest of Constantinople and the end of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire rapidly increased in...
Will Kingston-Cox
Dec 13, 20228 min read
Was the revolt in Zanzibar of 1964 determined by race or ideology?
The argument that the revolt in Zanzibar of 1964—the Zanzibar Revolution—was determined by a sole determinant, in a binary choice between...
Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
Nov 10, 202220 min read
A heap of masks buried in Syrian sands: The faces of Queen Zenobia and the woman behind them
In the turbulent days of the late third century CE, in the year 268, a frontier region of the Roman empire, Palmyra, crucial in the...
Chantelle Lee
Nov 10, 20229 min read
Native Americans and the ‘Plan for Civilisation’, c.1783 - 1830
Following the American Revolution, the new United States’ desire for more land was at the forefront of policy. Although the Indigenous...
Harriet Solomon
Nov 10, 202212 min read
Arab Strategy in the 1948 War
On the 29th November 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine. Following decades of struggle between its Jewish and...
Dorothy Greene
Oct 20, 202215 min read
Shah Abbas: Founder of Iranian Modernity or Upholder of Tradition?
Shah Abbas I, the ruler of the Safavid empire from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, was accorded a legendary reputation...
Dorothy Greene
Sep 19, 202216 min read
The Political Uses of Art Patronage in the Timurid and Safavid Empires
The Timurid and Safavid empires were vast and in perennial fluctuation. This meant that the leaders of these polities required highly...
Daisy Gant
Aug 11, 202210 min read
Khrushchev's new image of leadership post-Stalin
Introduction: In the wake of Stalin’s death, the Soviet Union witnessed a power struggle at the top of the Central Committee. This saw...
Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
Aug 3, 202219 min read
Between Control and Compromise: The Establishment of Spain’s American Empire
The Spanish Empire at its height spanned most of the American continent, from California to the southernmost reaches of Chile, and...
Daisy Gant
Aug 2, 202210 min read
Charles of Anjou: a success or failure?
Charles of Anjou is a controversial figure in Medieval history. Remembered for the Sicilian Vespers in 1282 and the subsequent loss of...
Katie Heggs
Jul 23, 202214 min read
Policy or Place: which determined the genocide of European Jews?
The genocide of the European Jews is an issue debated in much historiography – through opposing schools of thoughts arguing for an...
Chantelle Lee
Jul 23, 202210 min read
Was emancipation during the Civil War driven more by military necessity than moral conviction?
The standard popular narrative of the American Civil War is that it was a war fought to end slavery, pitched between the slaveholding...
Will Kingston-Cox
Jul 4, 202214 min read
How important was Soviet support for Ethiopia's Derg regime?
The Derg,[1] or the Provisional Military Administration Council (PMAC), was the revolutionary military regime, led by Haile Mariam...
Leandro Vargas Llosa
Jun 20, 202215 min read
New Latin American Cold War Historiography and the coups of Guatemala in 1954 and Chile in 1973
Recent Latin American Cold War historiography attempts to transcend scholarship in the 80s and 90s that tethered the region’s Cold War...
Molly Davies
Jun 6, 202212 min read
A Unifying Force for Christianity and the Roman Empire: The Council of Nicaea
The Council of Nicaea was the first ecumenical council of Christendom, held from May to August of AD 325. Emperor Constantine the Great...
Harriet Solomon
May 30, 202212 min read
Mediation and Facilitation: Peace Talks in the Arab-Israeli War
Any peace process involving the presence of a third party raises questions as to the nature and extent of this participation. With...
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