Second the Best
The industry, enlightenment, history and soft-power of Birmingham.
Reviews
‘Because they were German’
The continuity and contextualisation of German military history across five centuries.
New Heights
Admiring the world’s most famous ceiling.
Shut Up and Eat!
Does silence endure in Italy over Mussolini’s murderous regime?
Liar Liar
The courtroom drama, executions, and street pageantry of the so-called ‘Popish Plot’.
No More Windfalls
Uprisings, strikes, protests and massacres in South Africa, from the Boer War to the present day.
‘Contradiction on Stilts’
A uniquely personal take on the transfer of power in Hong Kong.
Assassin’s Creed
Was the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson the ‘murder that triggered the Irish Civil War’?
Inventing the Alphabet by Johanna Drucker review
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker explores the birth of the alphabet before the Greeks.
Survival of the Least Fit
Is there a trend of ‘reverse Darwinism’ in Russian history?