Europe

Graham Darby provides a timely reconsideration of why the conflict went on for so long and why the Central Powers lost.

Before 1867, Alaska was a Russian fur-trading colony, its values and laws derived from Moscow and, in part, from the European Enlightenment. Ernest Sipes looks at the relations between the colonists and the native peoples.

The social, sexual and demonic power of women was an important theme in the popular print of Germany and the Low Countries in the 16th century, as Julia Nurse shows.

Bonaparte has sometimes been acclaimed as the greatest military commander in history. In our final article in this series, David Gates reviews his contribution to the art and science of warfare.

Having made many powerful enemies, the Dominican friar and puritan fanatic Girolamo Savonarola was executed on 23 May 1498.

Renaissance Venetians developed a sophisticated technology for keeping the city’s vital waterways free from silt and in the process, as Joseph Black explains, created a unique landscape that inspired travellers and painters.

Derek Antrobus uncovers the origins of the Vegetarian Society.

Kit Wedd visits the Kensington home of artist Edward Linley Sambourne.

A profile of the issues raised by A level questions on this history topic.

Bruce Waller looks at recent debate about modern Germany's greatest statesman.