Recent books, The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the ...

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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 ...

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

The past is full of unfamiliar ideas and beliefs, but – as Evelyn Underhill has proven – some things are timeless. I n popular history, there are few more challenging subjects than the supernatural ...

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

Roman politics after the Emperor Diocletian abdicated in AD 305 was confusingly complicated as emperors and deputy emperors of the West and of the East contended for power. Among them was Flavius ...

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

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

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

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