Europe

Jonathan Riley Smith reports as Malta celebrates the anniversary of its Sovereign Military Order

Alex Sanmark tells the strange tale of the ill-fated marriage of Philip Augustus of France and his Danish princess at the end of the twelfth century.

Film historian Thomas Doherty does some detective work on a mystery from the 1930s, when the Hollywood studios had to deal with the upsurge of racism in Hitler’s Germany.

Historian June Purvis gives her very personal reflections on attending the ceremonies on HMS Victory on Trafalgar Day 2005.

Andy Lawrence insists that we must think for ourselves to unravel one of the great historical conundrums.

Two hundred years after William Pitt took on Napoleon, Europe is in crisis again. Keith Robbins warns Tony Blair that there are no easy fixes to the issues of democracy that have thrown the ‘European project’ off course.

Robert Johnson puts the decline of a once-great Empire into an international context.

Ian Kershaw sees 1945 as a real watershed in Europe’s history of the last century.

Paul Doolan visits a new museum in Geneva that presents the history of Reformed Christianity and Calvinism as a key and positive factor in European history.

‘A damnable and hellish plot’ orchestrated by a ‘shame to mankind’.