Letters to Sardinia
The concerns of a Sardinian abbess, as seen through the letters of Gregory the Great.
History Today
‘The French Resistance’ by Olivier Wieviorka review
From de Gaulle’s call to arms against Vichy France to Liberation four years later, we review The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka.
From Russia with Borscht
A staple of Russia and the Slavic world, borscht has inspired films and novels – and has even reached outer space.
Noggin the Nog
An enchanting series revealed the strangeness of the past to generations of children.
Forgetting Fascism
Never fully exorcised, the memory of Italy’s fascist past is fading.
We Need to Talk About Bess
How will modern women respond to the realities of a 16th-century life?
Why Didn’t The Crusades Succeed?
The reasons for the brevity of the Latin presence in the 12th-century Eastern Mediterranean.
The First Japanese Man in America
A teenager shipwrecked on a Pacific atoll helped transform relations between Japan and the United States.
The Enigma of Emily Brontë
Since the moment Emily Brontë died we have tried – and failed – to understand who she was.
Who Should Have The Vote in Britain?
What voting rights did Britons have in the century before 1918?