Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of Nuclear Disaster by Melanie Arndt discovers how civil society flourished – and then faltered – in the fallout.

Alleged occupants of Earth’s interior have since included mammoths, super-civilisations, and the aforementioned UFOs. Kept ...

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French traces the line ...

Dunsterforce was the result. The mission was an exceptionally challenging one, but Britain’s military planners believed they ...

O n 20 June 1940, with the threat of large-scale enemy bombing looming ever closer and the Battle of Britain imminent, a ...

The organisers of the Indian displays at London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 had a problem: they urgently required a taxidermy elephant. They needed the elephant as a frame on which to display a lavish ...

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s by Thant Myint-U captures the optimism and ambition ...

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, ...

Knell continuing his attack as before, so maliciously and furiously, and Towne … to save his life drew his sword of iron ...

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski is Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at UCL and Principal Historian of the Polish History ...

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 ...

The kings of medieval France were fascinated by the Mongols, who they saw as great empire builders. Eager to learn more, they ...