How the Roman Empire Lost its Gods
Many gods – Greek, Syrian, Phoenician, Egyptian, Etruscan – lived within the wide borders of the Roman Empire. All ancient
What was the Industrial Revolution?
‘Industrial organisation defines people’s lives’ Judy Z. Stephenson is Professor of the Economic History of the Built Environment at the
The Last Resort by Sumayyah Hussein illustrated by Rania Hasan
Once I got over my disappointment that the no parking sign on the bottom left of the cover was a
The Fall of Saigon | History Today
On 21 April 1975, speaking from Saigon’s Independence Palace in a televised broadcast to South Vietnam and the world, President
‘Epic of the Earth’ by Edith Hall review
In Book 21 of the Iliad Achilles has a violent confrontation with the nonhuman world. Overcome with wrath after the
The City of Jasmine by Nadine Presley illustrated by Heather Brockman Lee
With a release date of May 6, I really wanted to wait to post a review because the images are
Sex Workers and Salvation in the Renaissance
Pope Pius II once quipped that Florence was a city of merchants, or, perhaps, prostitutes, playing on the similarity between
Stalin’s Man in Belgrade | History Today
On the morning of 27 April 1953 Yugoslavia’s communist leader Josip Broz Tito received the Costa Rican diplomat Teodoro Castro
VE Day: The Quiet After the Peace
Across Britain, people could sense the end of the war approaching by the spring of 1945. After five-and-a-half years of
Death of Zaga Christ | History Today
Sometime in 1633 a teenage Ethiopian prince, newly converted to Catholicism by Franciscans in Jerusalem, knelt before Pope Urban VIII
