Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Nightmare
During the Cold War, nearly a quarter of all the world’s nuclear testing took place in Kazakhstan, in secret. In 1986, a high-profile disaster in Ukraine changed that.
History Today
Oil and Water: How Iran Lost the Tanker War
The Strait of Hormuz became a fraught passage in the Tanker War between Iran and Iraq. Nevertheless, the oil continued to flow.
A Well-Trodden Road
An admirable retelling of the traditional history of appeasement.
Chaucer: The Poet in His World
Is a biography of Chaucer impossible?
Heads Turned by Treasure
Archaeologists and historians are on the same side, despite what journalists say.
Are Empires Always Bad?
Empires have been part of human history for millennia. Are they, of necessity, a bad thing?
Retracing The Steps
An intimate understanding of John Buchan with a scholarly reading of the immense mass of his papers
A Painter Fit for a Queen
Nicholas Hilliard was a portraitist at the pinnacle of his profession.
The Future of God in 1943
Christian thinkers whose lives and thoughts connected in 1943, when it looked like the Allies were on top and minds turned to the future.
Hungary’s Holy Trinity
What connects a Hollywood star, a physicist of genius and a recently departed historian?