European History
Danish Ferocity and Abandoned Monasteries: the Twelfth-century View
University of Leeds
Julia Barrow explains why twelfth-century authors found it so important to invent stories of Viking brutality towards monks and nuns […]
The Clergy in the Medieval World
University of Leeds
Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important […]
Empire and Aftermath
University of Chicago
Clifford Ando re-frames the issue of beginnings and endings by reexamining “decline and fall” in the works of two eighteenth-century […]
The political economy of religion in the early Roman empire.
University of Chicago
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914
Queen Mary, University of London
Capitalism has co-existed with many different kinds of states, from Victorian Britain to republican France and confederate Switzerland, from Fascist […]
Donald Sassoon on One Hundred Years of Socialism
Queen Mary, University of London
Donald Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14 countries, covering the […]
The Mediterranean and North Africa, 1940–1944
University of Leeds
Simon Ball explores the components of French strategic analysis and decision-making down to the defeat of June 1940. He proposes […]
Die Schöne Heimat? Depictions of Germany in a popular photobook from the Second Empire to the Federal Republic
University of Manchester
While existing studies of twentieth-century German photobooks have understandably sought out volumes by the most iconic photographers, with the most […]
Hiding the Colonial Past? A Comparison of European Archival Policies
Kings College London
Displaced archives are a common legacy of colonialism. This chapter examines the similarities and differences between the ‘migrated archives’ and […]
