Holy Dying: Evangelical Atttitudes to Death
Robert Cecil examines evangelical attitudes towards death in the eighteenth century.
History Today
Cameos from the Grand Tour: The Paintings of Pompeo Batoni
For wealthy young men in the eighteenth century, the 'Grand Tour' was the climax of their education, explains Hugh Belsey in this article. And as a souvenir of their travels, a portrait painted by Pompeo Batoni became almost de rigeur.
Death and the Danse Macabre
John Cohen muses on the significance of death in literature and politics throughout history.
Manpower for Britain's Empire
The flood of emigrants bidding their 'Last farewell to England' in the early nineteenth century was not as the result of an organised governmental policy of colonial development, argues Mark Brayshaw, but of haphazard individual effort.
The First Highland Charge
During the Highland rebellions from the mid-seventeenth century, explains David Stevenson, the fighting highlanders developed a remarkable military tactic which terrified their enemies.
Redmond O'Hanlon and the Outlaws of Ulster
In the first half of the seventeenth century, Ireland in effect changed hands, and Redmond O'Hanlon was one of the many dispossessed who made parts of Ireland ungovernable by the outlaw's war he waged.
Reading History: The Thirty Years' War
Geoffrey Parker examines the historiography of the Thirty Years' War.
Kipling, Kim and Imperialism
Rudyard Kipling’s imperialism was more complex than the line, ‘Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.’
Reading History: The Russian Revolution
Edward Acton outlines the historiography of the Russian Revolution.
Sophia, Regent of Russia
Catherine the Great wrote of Sophia Alekseevna, the first woman to effectively rule Russia, '... we cannot but own, that she was very capable of governing.'An article by Lindsey A.J. Hughes