Early modern English perceptions of China, as expressed in surviving print materials, occupy a liminal intellectual zone, suspended...

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

1950s London, an increasingly cosmopolitan capital city, witnessed “vice” pushed to the forefront of public anxieties. Vice came in the...

The argument that the revolt in Zanzibar of 1964—the Zanzibar Revolution—was determined by a sole determinant, in a binary choice between...

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...

Following the American Revolution, the new United States’ desire for more land was at the forefront of policy. Although the Indigenous...

On the 29th November 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine. Following decades of struggle between its Jewish and...

Shah Abbas I, the ruler of the Safavid empire from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, was accorded a legendary reputation...

As with most cultural processes in the ancient world, whether they be ethnic identities or cultural exchange and interconnectivity, the...

Few things preoccupied the medieval Christian church more than the notion of sin: because of mankind’s propensity to corruption the...

Abstract Victorian society has often been thought of one of upstanding morals, rigid etiquette and sombre tones. Yet the lunacy panics...

The Timurid and Safavid empires were vast and in perennial fluctuation. This meant that the leaders of these polities required highly...

The Catholic Reformation, or Renewal began with the Council of Trent 1545 to 1563, and endeavoured to update the Catholic Church to an...

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...

Since the initial establishment of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Brazil as a means of unifying and recreating ethnic identities...

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...

The standard popular narrative of the American Civil War is that it was a war fought to end slavery, pitched between the slaveholding...