Imaobong Umoren is Associate Professor of International History at LSE and the author of Empire Without End: A New History of ...

Early in June 1098 the army of the First Crusade, heading south through Syria on its way to wrest Jerusalem from the Saracens, captured the city of Antioch, but was promptly shut in the city and ...

Now, in Florence’s hour of peril, it was high time that an equally, if not more, dazzling pair should be cast for the north ...

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley follows in ...

Decades of speculation followed, before, in 1952, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England dated the ...

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire by Sarah E. Bond assembles a case for the power of the worker in ...

In the summer of 1992 a senior British army officer was given the chance to visit Russia and Kyrgyzstan. His trip would have been unthinkable for most of the century then approaching its end. Now he ...

Greg Grandin has dedicated his career to the study of how United States imperialism shaped Latin America and how its Latin American empire shaped the United States. America, América may be his most ...

On 8 October 1982 Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative Party Conference that ‘the National Health Service is safe with us’. This would prove to be among her most memorable lines. However, as ...

In June 1825 Samuel Pepys’ diary was published for the first time. It was an instant hit. Newspapers were soon full of reviews quoting memorable passages from this secret journal: Pepys’ descriptions ...

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term were nothing if not controversial. This was especially the case in the United States’ northern neighbour where his talk of Canada becoming the ‘51st ...

Imagine it is AD 476 and you have travelled to Constantinople to announce that the Roman Empire has just ended. You would be met with ridicule. The event conventionally marking the dissolution of Rome ...