Mary Sparks describes a female citizen of Sarajevo, whose life in the city coincided with the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and whose impact on the social and cultural events reflected the modern aspirations of the city in the time leading up to the First World War
During the First World War, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist William Lawrence Bragg devised a system to locate enemy guns, which made a dramatic impact on the Allied war effort and beyond, says Taylor Downing.
We ask some of our leading historians to tell us about the books that they have found most stimulating over the past 12 months.
The ‘little town’ celebrated by western Christians as the location of the Nativity is much more than a stylised depiction evoked in Christmas cards each December, says Jacob Norris.
The tragic figure whose death led to the outbreak of the First World War was born on 18 December 1863.
Tinseltown pioneers founded the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company on December 22nd, 1913.
The rebirth of one of the world's great buildings took place on December 24th, 563.
To be present where so many are now absent offers students a profound insight into the realities of history, argues Tom Jackson.
Should one of the greatest of Welsh treasures be returned to the country in which it was found? David R. Howell investigates.
The history of the Bayreuth Festival, the annual celebration of the music of Richard Wagner, is mired in controversy and scandal, as Mark Ronan reports.
