The Decembrists: Russia’s First Liberal Revolt and the Winter It Failed
Almost a century later, another Nicholas—Nicholas II—would face a very different kind of revolution.
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Miranda Kaufman’s Heiresses: A review
Heiresses is, in the end, a book about women—but not in the flattering, costume-drama way.
How TV Rewrite the Norman Conquest
Because if you’re going to dramatise 1066, the last thing you should do is make it feel like EastEnders in armour.
Christianity at the Crossroads by David N. Hempton: A Review
It moves through people. And people are always more complicated than our best models.
Derek R. Peterson’s A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda: A Review
That’s where Peterson’s book lands as a political intervention, not just a historical one.
Joyce Butler and the Long Road to the UK Sex Discrimination Act 1975
A woman who wanted to move up at work… but wasn’t allowed to learn the skills needed to do it.
How Early England Kept Time
How Tudor and Stuart England Told Time in Court Without Saying “Tuesday at 9”
Inside Japan’s Buddhist Temples
If you ever visit Japan, temples are not just tourist stops. They are lessons in how a culture tried, again and again, to build places worthy of both the world we live in and the enlightenment it hopes to reach.
Tracing the Celts in Portugal
The Celts in Europe, dark green areas, are still Celtic-speaking today.