Empire

Peter Neville surveys the growth of republicanism in Ireland to the present day.

Geoffrey Woodward assesses how great an impact the Turks had on sixteenth-century Europe.

Michael Morrogh explains why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish home rule and why his policies failed so tragically.

Mary Ann Steggles recalls the circumstances of the many monuments to Queen Victoria that were erected in India, and traces their fate.

What did Hitler mean by Lebensraum? Did he attempt to translate theory into reality? Martyn Housden 'unpacks' the term and puts it into historical context.

Huw V. Bowen asks whether the East India Company was one of the ‘most powerful engines’ of state and empire in British history.

Paul Doolan describes the unique 400-year-long trading, intellectual and artistic contacts between the Dutch and the Japanese.

A fleet led by Pedro Álvares Cabral reached the Brazilian coast on April 22nd, 1500.

Rhoads Murphey helps us to distinguish between the legendary and the real in the legacy of a great empire-builder.

Today best known for its gambling industry, the rich cultural history of Europe’s last colonial toehold in China might be the key to its future.