How can historians of Tibet – a region whose history is tightly controlled by the Chinese authorities – gain access to its recent past? Comparing newspapers from either side of the Himalayas might ...

The colony of New South Wales did not have its own parliament until 1856, but it did have a tradition of public dinners and ...

Henry VIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?

Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the 16th century, but its attitude to its own poor ...

Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed a great success, but it had unexpected consequences. P rewar ...

Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s Spy, Dennis Sewell asks whether George Downing was the ‘biggest ...

Justine Firnhaber-Baker is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. Her latest book is House of Lilies: The ...

The Maginot Line: A New History by Kevin Passmore confronts the myths surrounding the fall of France in 1940.

In May 1967 I met Fernand Braudel for the first time. At the end of my ‘audience’ I asked him what constituted the greatest asset for a historian. I expected something along the lines of Leopold von ...

At its height Oxford’s book trade enjoyed the establishment of Dominican and Franciscan friaries in need of books for university activities and preaching, and an early demand from lay figures for ...

What makes a state? Is it its people, its borders, its government, or does it rest on recognition from international powers? Across the 19th and 20th centuries, the process by which states have been ...

On 20 June 1940, with the threat of large-scale enemy bombing looming ever closer and the Battle of Britain imminent, a letter from the Ministry of Home Security was sent to selected town clerks ...