The King Who Wasn't There
Prester John on his throne in Ethiopia, from a map of East Africa in the Queen Mary Atlas, by Diogo Homem, Portuguese, 1558. © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images.Early in 1145, worried about the growing threat of Muslim fo...
Springtime for Europe | History Today
On the barricades on the Rue Soufflot, Paris, 1848, by Horace Vernet. Wikimedia Commons.One afternoon in January 1848, in the Sicilian city of Palermo, the streets began to fill with crowds. What brought people out of their homes en masse, or what...
Is History Written by the Winners?
The August Coup, an attempted Soviet coup d'état, Moscow, 1991. Wikimedia Commons. ‘The powerful of one era are not the same as those of the preceding one’ Levi Roach, Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter and author ...
Anarchy in the Waste Land
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Banking On It | History Today
Dividend Day at the Bank of England, 1770. Wikimedia Commons.Virtue is not a characteristic always associated with banks these days. But in Virtuous Bankers, Anne Murphy tells the important story of how, in the 18th century, the Bank of England wo...
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