Laocoön
A warning is ignored and a city falls in El Greco’s lurid depiction.
History Today
Backing Tyranny
The consequences of the German aristocracy’s Faustian pact.
Belarus Remembers
Belarusian memory of the Second World War once helped legitimise the Lukashenka regime. Now it is undermining it.
Harold Moody’s Fight for Racial Equality
The pioneer of the British civil rights movement is no less significant than his American counterparts.
Was German Unification Inevitable?
In January 1871 Bismarck declared the German nation united. Following a tragic 20th century, Germany reunified once more in 1990. Four historians offer their perspectives on both events.
How did the Elephant get its Trunk?
It took millennia to find out.
Continental Drift
Two continents and two millennia of extraordinary African Europeans.
The Central Problem
Surveying the world of Late Antiquity from its Persian centre.
Baptism of Leo Africanus
The great native historian of Africa was baptised by Pope Leo X on 6 January 1520.
The Invention of Chinese
Believing language would unify their struggling nation, Chinese officials began a project to create a national language and define what it meant to speak Chinese.