Europe

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of a very suspicious death, on March 10th, 1948

Robert Frost reveals a neglected influence on his reforms.

Barry Doyle compares today's multiplex cinemas with the picture palaces of pre-war Britain.

Jeremy Black tells how the delicate system of international relations and ancien regime diplomacy was shattered by the Emperor’s arrogance and refusal to play by the rules.

Michael Broers explores the measures and restrictions imposed by Napoleon on his many subjects and how, within the boundaries of the Empire, they responded to his rule.

The Spirit of the Age or The Scourge of Nations? Jeremy Black sets the scene for our major series on the impact of Napoleon on Europe.

A.D. Harvey looks at the enduring myth surrounding one of history’s ‘Great Men’, and how he dominated the nineteenth-century imagination outside France.

Dirk Bennett sheds new light on the origin and history of chariot racing as a sport, and explores its popular and political role from pre-classical Greece to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Derek Aldcroft argues that the statesmen of 1919 failed to act in the interests of Europe as a whole.

Alexander Bely remembers the events of October 26th, 1497.