History Today

Roosevelt’s Southern Connection

Was the US president ‘dealing with the devil’ in his relationships with segregationist politicians or was his ‘the art of the possible’?

An Odious Story

A narrative history from the peak of Hitler’s powers up to his demise.

Beowulf the Bro

A new translation finds Beowulf comfortably at home in the 21st century.

My Back Pages

Those who kept a diary in 2020 have provided a service to posterity.  

Stakhanovite Shopping

Even the retail sector became part of the second Five Year Plan imposed on the Soviet Union by Stalin.  

Writ in Water

A kaleidoscopic tour of the Volga and the history of the people who have resided by it.

Prometheus

The immortal Titan abandoned to his eternal fate.