Vijayanagara: City of Victory
Spread over some ten square miles of the rocky Deccan plateau, explains Geroge Michell, are the remains of the once great city of southern India, Vijayanagara, which is now being rediscovered.
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Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia
The wastelands of Siberia provided Tsarist Russia with ‘a vast roofless prison’ for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile.
The Maoris in New Zealand History
When the British and Maori signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Governor Hobson declared: 'We are one people'. Today, as Professor Keith Sinclair shows, this hope has still to be realised.
The Plague in England
Anne Roberts explores the incidence of plague in England from 1348 to 1679.
Sir Thomas More and the Heretics
Thomas More is often thought of as a family man who died for his principles, not as a burner of books and heretics.