A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda by Derek R. Peterson looks for the ordinary people who kept the regime’s wheels ...

F or me, the standout book of 2025 is John Blair’s Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World ...

As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire.

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for ...

Christianity at the Crossroads: The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era by David N. Hempton peers ...

To the British officials in Nigeria they were the Aba Riots. But the Igbo and Ibibio women involved called them Ogu Umunwaanyi, the Women’s War. There had been tremors of discontent in 1925: in April ...

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...

When putting the Middle Ages on screen, drama is no substitute for the historical sources.

The Battle of Fitjar, fought in southern Norway in 961, was a struggle between King Hákon ‘the Good’, once the foster-son of King Æthelstan of England, and his nephews, the sons of Erik ‘Bloodaxe’.

It is often taken for granted that all European nations involved in the early Cold War, save Germany, fell naturally onto one side of the Iron Curtain or the other. Yet Czechoslovakia was not ...

Throughout the greatest days of the Roman Empire, the famous Pax Romana was preserved with the help of an efficient police force. In the cities, small forces of gendarmes, often recruited from slaves, ...

The Decembrist revolt of 1825 saw Russia’s nobility attempt to depose tsar Nicholas I. Dismissed as romantic idealists, they were driven by a bold vision for the future of the country.