Bad Company?
Successful leaders or rapacious, racist, corrupt adventurers? A history of the East India Company.
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The Best Articles of 2019
A selection of our favourite articles from the past year.
Sacred Spaces
The global struggle to resist the banalities of mass tourism.
Park Life
Britain’s National Parks are a forgotten legacy of postwar reconstruction.
What is the Value of Economic History?
When we ask historians which genre of history they like least, the most common answer is ‘economic’. Is the field unjustly maligned?
Airy and Rational Animals
The study of song as an imperfect, protean, untameable art form.
The Journey of the Magi
Three wise men, guided by a star, search for the new-born Christ.
Cambodia’s Crimes Unpunished
Confronting the country's darkest hour and looking for answers.
A History of Haggis
The origins of haggis are as mysterious as the Loch Ness Monster.
Books of the Year 2019
Covering Hong Kong, the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, porcine inebriation and the Battle of Algiers, nine historians select their favourite books of the past year.