John Womack’s Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. Just before the Big Bang. I realise there are risks attached. In 1968 Jack Gallagher breezily suggested I work on Latin America. The rest is history.

One of these was Joyce Butler, the backbench Labour and Co-operative MP for Wood Green. Having had a longstanding interest in ...

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

On 7 December 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, triggering war ...

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

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

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

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

At its height Oxford’s book trade enjoyed the establishment of Dominican and Franciscan friaries in need of books for university activities and preaching, and an early demand from lay figures for ...

An unprecedented number of pilgrims travelled to Rome for the last two jubilees of the 16th century. Held every 25 years, jubilees were a rare opportunity for the faithful to earn plenary indulgences ...

Mikhail Bulgakov wasn’t all that bothered about the future, even on his deathbed. The last photos of him, taken in his Moscow apartment in February 1940, show no trace of fear. Although his face is ...

Environmental history is a comparatively young field of enquiry with strong American roots. Roderick Nash, emeritus historian at the University of California, is usually credited with inventing the ...