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In the era of the early modern ‘secret state’, two notorious brothers set up an elaborate intelligence network, managing a vast array of spies and informers watchful for Jacobite plots against Britain.

Just two countries supported the Republic during the Spanish Civil War: the Soviet Union and Mexico. While Soviet help came with strings attached, Mexico’s reflected the country’s contentious relationship with its old colonial master.

The 18th century was the age of graffiti, when the writing on the wall turned political.

Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England. It has not yet proven to be justified.

Two very different volumes, Sparta and the Commemoration of War and The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae, grapple with the myth of Sparta.

‘Genocide’, the Holocaust episode of The World at War, was pioneering when it first aired. Does it stand the test of time? 

To support ex-servicemen injured during the First World War, charities like St Dunstan’s found creative ways of fundraising. 

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck brings Southeast Asia’s ‘invisible revolution’ into the light.

Did the Greeks really trick their way into Troy inside a gigantic wooden horse?