Bananas are a miraculous fruit. Unable to grow outside the tropics, their prevalence in European supermarkets today is thanks to the...

Name a country that colonised the New World.   Immediately, I’m sure you’ll think of the Spanish and their conquistadors: Hernán Cortés...

The suffering of An Gorta Mór , or the Great Famine, marked a demographic tragedy for Ireland. Over one million people died, and another...

If you visit Warwick Castle, you will find countless placards and performances chronicling its history – chief among them, its...

Recent elections have brought identity to the core of politics: nationalism worldwide threatens to undermine efforts toward global...

This year, Paris hosted the Olympic Games, featuring 32 sports, 329 events, and 10,500 athletes over 16 days of competition. Paris became...

There was much fear and anxiety during the reign of Elizabeth I over what would happen when her reign came to an end. Perhaps...

This piece was originally written in December 2022 and featured in The Looking Glass, an academic publication of Watford Boys’ Grammar...

The lives of Mary Read and her fellow female pirate Anne Bonny were immortalised in Captain Charles Johnson’s A General History of the...

In modern media, many journalists have attempted to identify the European equivalent of Donald Trump. The names often mentioned include...

Bombing public spaces, endangering innocent people, and violent vandalism do not describe heroes or nationally celebrated martyrs. Most...

Noah Parsons By the time of the High Medieval Period, Western Europe remained firmly within the grasp of the omnipotent Catholic Church....

Fred Teasdale The July Crisis is often thought of as just a series of events, events that naturally followed the assassination of...

Miki Smigielski Ridley Scott’s epic film Gladiator hit cinemas in 2000, familiarising audiences with a dramatic portrayal of the ancient...

Jakob Reid When studying history, one fundamental question often goes unaddressed: for whom are we studying and investigating history?...