This year marks seventy years since the publication of W.G. Hoskins’ The Making of the English Landscape  (1955), a work that played a...

Throughout the Cold War, the spectre of communism was as much a political ritual as it was a perceived reality, summoned whenever...

"Peace is not merely the absence of conflict, but the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."  – Ronald Reagan    Since its...

Not every war is built on lies. Some are born of panic, others from provocation, and many from the brutal contingencies of power. The...

In the autumn of 1830, the fields of southern and eastern England ignited in protest. Hayricks burned, threshing machines were smashed,...

On the 8 th  of July, it was announced that the Bayeux Tapestry – the world-famous embroidery depicting the events of the Norman conquest...

Cover Image: Odinus ( Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/odlnus?igsh=MTN3ZXA4dDBxc2NuMQ==  Artstation : https://www.artstation.com/artw...

Churches are enduring landmarks throughout Britain, forming an integral part of the spiritual and social fabric of its cities, towns, and...

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 initiated the construction of a new ideological and institutional order. Besides dismantling the...

In the tale of the French Revolution, how bad must you be to be referred to as the “worst person of this story” by Dominic Sandbrook? The...

I n our so-called ‘enlightened’ age, mysticism, prophecy, and divine revelation are often dismissed as relics of a pre-modern world...

No figure is more emblematic of the Victorian era than Queen Victoria herself, whose reign from 1837 to 1901 gave the period its name....

Have you ever gotten out of a particularly engrossing lecture and thought ‘this lecturer would make a great world leader’? Neither have...

It is startling just how many of Colchester’s streets are casually dotted with pieces of history that thousands walk past unknowingly...

Though first articulated to Congress in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine would not become a significant part of US foreign policy until the...

On 22 April 1870, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born into a middle-class family in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), Russia. His family had...

Footbinding – a notorious cultural practice – represents how image, pain, and power intersected to leave an indelible mark on both...

It is 686 AD at the gates of the Northumbrian monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey. Pushing one of the great oak doors ajar, we are...

On 3 November 1948, early editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune  boldly declared, ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’. With votes still being counted,...

The army barracks at Colchester are some of the oldest, continually used, military facilities anywhere in the world. Since AD 43, there...