Europe

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.

Michael Mullett looks at the contradictory attitudes and mixed achievements of a courageous reformer.

Richard Hodges unites oral tradition and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the story of the Dark Age destruction of an Italian monastery

James M. Brophy describes how the Carnival in 19th-century Cologne held a subversive hidden agenda of protest against Prussian overlordship.

Sarah Foster offers a fascinating account of how Irish identity, with its sectarian implications, asserted itself in the manufacture and purchase of luxury goods.

Benjamin Thompson reviews two new titles on medieval lordship.

Mark Bevir reports on two books which look at western socialism in the twentieth century.

In the first of our mini-series on the Nazis and social culture, Lisa Pine looks at how lessons in the classroom were perverted in the service of the Third Reich.