Donald Bloxham

Odysseus, study for The Apotheosis of Homer, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c.1850 © Bridgeman Images.

Why Study the Past?

History can teach, inspire, warn, include and exclude; its uses change to fit the present moment.

Armenian civilians, escorted by armed Ottoman soldiers, are marched through Harput (Kharpert), April 1915.

Rethinking the Armenian Genocide

The year 1915 saw the start of the Armenian genocide in Turkey. In his account of the complex historical background to these events Donald Bloxham focuses on the issue of great power involvement.