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Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world.

The Strait of Hormuz has become a fraught passage in the Tanker Wars between Iran and Iraq.

Starvation and disease killed millions in British India during the Second World War. Why?

In an age of political and religious division that ended in Civil War, Lucius Cary and his circle at Great Tew offered a space for debate and compromise.

The role of women in the Ku Klux Klan is often neglected, but they were key players at all levels.

Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy. 

Despite the religious rupture caused by the Reformation, fear of the Apocalypse remained common to both sides of western Christendom. But older, classical ideas of an eternal return were at work, too.

Events in the Baltic States at the end of the First World War had serious long-term consequences.