After Hiroshima: The US Occupation of Japan
The most famous image of the Allied Occupation of Japan, which ran from August 1945 to April 1952, shows General
When Summer Meant Sea Serpents
From the 1860s, late July through to mid-September became known as the ‘silly season’. With Parliament and law courts in
The Hunt for Martin Marprelate
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The Church of England’s Great Ejection
In the Declaration of Breda of April 1660, Charles II promised ‘liberty to tender consciences’. But his first parliament, summoned
The Ancient Greek World at War
War has no redeeming features. The only good thing about the Peloponnesian War, fought between Athens and Sparta from 431
‘The Invention of the Eastern Question’ by Ozan Ozavcı review
Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014 was, of course, not the first time the peninsula was forced to take centre
What Birmingham Taught Muslim India
In 1786 the East India Company placed an order for minting coins with the Birmingham industrialists Matthew Boulton and James
On the Spot: Natasha Wheatley
Why are you a historian of central Europe? Growing up in Australia I (naively) valorised Europe. The German-speaking lands seemed
Zeyna Lost and Found by Shafaq Khan
I think I needed this 336 page middle grade book that gets parents out of the way and lets a
Spain Was Different: Tourism Under Franco
South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the
