Interpreting the Ottoman Empire
The multifarious motives of Europe’s Ottoman scholars.
Reviews
Bad Company?
Successful leaders or rapacious, racist, corrupt adventurers? A history of the East India Company.
Airy and Rational Animals
The study of song as an imperfect, protean, untameable art form.
Cambodia’s Crimes Unpunished
Confronting the country's darkest hour and looking for answers.
Books of the Year 2019
Covering Hong Kong, the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, porcine inebriation and the Battle of Algiers, nine historians select their favourite books of the past year.
Stauffenberg: Portrait of a Plotter
The views and actions of the man who tried to kill Hitler.
Unravelling the History of Wool
The lore and history of knitting in the British Isles.
Lewis Namier's Unfinished Business
The life of one of the leading British historians of the mid-20th century.
‘Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune’ by Rory Muir review
How, in Jane Austen’s England, sons without a fortune tried to find one.
The Unravelling of Sino-Japanese Relations
The story of China and Japan, and the periodic efforts to find a modus vivendi.