Scandals of the Glorious Revolution, murder in the Blitz, Britain’s forgotten colonial conflicts, mothers on death row, Gustav Vasa, why civil wars start, Southeast Asia’s sunken warships.
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The devastation and chaos inflicted on London by wartime bombing raids provided an opportunity for murderers to conceal their crimes.
Rumours about the sexual proclivities of King William III began to spread as soon as he took the English throne. What went on behind the closed doors of the royal court had implications for the nation.
In The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492, Marcy Norton shows through Indigenous American practices and beliefs that colonisation was a catastrophe for the natural world.
The Edwardian era is often seen as a peaceful interlude between the violence of Victorian expansion and the First World War. In reality, Edward’s reign bore witness to dozens of conflicts across the Empire.
A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic by Francis D. Cogliano explores a relationship more complex than that of comrades turned rivals.
US law requires a stay of execution for pregnant women on death row. In practice, however, this once only applied to mothers considered ‘good enough’.
How do dissent and disagreement tip over into civil war? And is peace, when it comes, ever absolute?
A bloody massacre in Stockholm’s city square set Sweden on a course for independence under the leadership of Gustav I Vasa. A master of the ethos of 16th-century monarchy, his legacy is complicated.
