The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed explores one financial panic amongst many.

Hoping to weaken the rebels’ cause, Britain offered freedom to enslaved people who joined the British army. At the end of the American Revolutionary War that promised freedom had to be honoured – but ...

In the 1960s Anglo-French efforts to collaborate on a new combat aircraft – the BAC/Dassault AFVG – hit turbulence.

That the United States declared its independence in July 1776 is well known; that the British state commissioned, but never ...

Ancient Egyptian monuments are covered in graffiti made by visitors from Cyprus. Why were they there, and what does it mean?

Following the passing of Jürgen Habermas in March 2026, we revisit 1962’s The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: ...

The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, Eric H. Cline hears the voice of the pharaohs.

The English reporter who posed as a man to become a soldier during the First World War was born on 4 October 1896. Dorothy Lawrence was 18 when she made her way by bicycle to the front lines on the ...

In hiding and soon to be sentenced to death in absentia, Eugène Pottier completed a poem In June 1871 that still serves as the rallying cry for the Left worldwide: L’Internationale. Its themes of ...

Christina of Sweden had a blazing vitality, intelligence and wit that made her the wonder of Europe. Her father was Gustavus II Adolphus, the colossus who bestrode the North, and he had her reared ...

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George Watson considers how news of a political and moral bombshell was received, particularly by intellectuals on both the Left and the Right. In August 1939, Hitler astounded the world by signing a ...