Military

The Tragedy of Lidice

Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.

The Wars of the Poppies

Leslie Marchant sees the Opium Wars as a philosophical clash between two cultures and two notions of government and society.

The Peace of Vereeniging

On May 31st, 1902, the Peace of Vereeniging was signed, ending the Second Boer War between Britain and the two Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

Home from the Wars

Stephen Brumwell discusses attitudes towards Veterans in mid-Georgian Britain, and the provisions made for them.