Reviews

Why is the West so suspicious of Russia? The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith attempts to answer.

Continental Australia has a surprising history of South Asian immigration.

A new book seeks to change the way we look at the Second World War by challenging three enduring myths about Britain’s involvement. 

Arabic was not just spread by the sword, but by merchants, patron-hunting poets and dowry-seeking princes.

The man who, at the time of his death in 2012, was arguably the most famous historian in the world is brought into quotidian focus. 

Meet the members of the 18th-century’s most illustrious club.

The life of Robert Parkin Peters: clergyman, would-be academic and one of the most brazen fraudsters of the 20th century.

The voices of forgotten women in Reformation France.

An account of how belief became opinion.

The real lives of five women who found fame only in the manner of their deaths: murdered by the man we have come to know as ‘Jack the Ripper’.