Those Walls Can Talk!
The seemingly insignificant objects of our daily lives are vital tools to understanding our past.
History Matters
Thoughts, opinions and commentary on all things historical.
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From Dunkirk to Brexit
It is tempting to try to understand events such as Brexit through historical analogies, but how useful are these comparisons?
Habsburg Iberia Points West
The 16th century was a time of crisis and change for Portugal’s empire.
Mary Shelley's Life of Learning
Behind the dominating presence of Frankenstein, the richness of Mary Shelley’s life is in danger of being lost.
Dedication Is What You Need
Seemingly inconsequential, dedicating books to royalty was a vital part of Tudor publishing.
America’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
Wendell Phillips is not remembered fondly in Yemen.
Sanitising the Suffragettes
Why is it so easy to forget an unsavoury aspect of Britain’s recent past?
Sacred Songs for the Dead
Women had few powers in Ancient Greece – except in death.
German East Africa after the First World War
The peoples of Germany's African colonies recovered from the conflict against all the odds.
Roman Women and the Oppian Law
‘We have not kept our women individually under control, we now dread them collectively’, said Cato the Elder, as Rome’s women took to the streets to protest the unfair lex Oppia.