The Ideas of 1914
The comparatively static nature of the front line in the west for much of the war meant that, after the...
The comparatively static nature of the front line in the west for much of the war meant that, after the...
What happened to Napoleon Bonaparte‘s relatives after he lost power in France? They could not stay in France but, perhaps...
France was England’s principal rival in the race to found colonies in North America in the 17th and 18th centuries....
Seventy years ago, interned by the Germans in Buchenwald concentration camp, the Dutch professor Peter Geyl tried out on the...
The insulting ‘treasure’ that France’s Dauphin sent to Henry V in Shakespeare’s play had long since played its part in...
History remembers Nostradamus mostly for his uncanny gift of prophecy. This famous talent never dominated his attention. Along with being...
Although it was the American revolution that set the French Revolution vibrating, no two countries could have been less alike...
The love of Bonaparte’s life was an enchanting Creole – the term then used for all white West indians –...
The first three decades of the 15th century were a time of civil war, military defeat, and political humiliation in...
The turn of the 19th century was a golden age of caricature across much of the northern Europe – from...