Reading Time: 4 minutes Unravelling the blame game: Exploring the complex factors behind the First World War
Tag: History books
Zelenskyy and Ukraine join elite company with 2023 Charlemagne Prize
Reading Time: 4 minutes But who was Charlemagne and why is a prize named after him?
Marie Antoinette’s formidable mother
Reading Time: 4 minutes Austrian ruler Maria Theresa a formidable and hugely influential figure
Caesar and Alexander – heroes, villains, or both?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Projecting modern values back over two thousand years is the tricky bit
The Canadian who helped tame America’s Wild West
Reading Time: 4 minutes Born in Quebec, Bat Masterson set out to find adventure on America’s frontier – and he found plenty
Tying up the loose ends on Flora Macdonald’s story
Reading Time: 4 minutes Flora Macdonald, who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after the Battle of Culloden, was nothing if not a practical woman
Winston Churchill and the villainous ‘Guilty Men’
Reading Time: 4 minutes An influential book from 1940 laid the guilt of appeasing Nazi Germany at the feet of 15 public figures
Flora Macdonald, from Scottish rebel to loyalist
Reading Time: 4 minutes Flora Macdonald helped Boonie Prince Charlie escape to France after the disastrous Battle of Culloden
Popular historian Paul Johnson dead at 94
Reading Time: 4 minutes An enthusiastic polemicist with no qualms about giving voice to his particular perspective on the world
The ignominious end of the Ottoman Empire
Reading Time: 4 minutes The last sultan, Mehmed VI, left his palace under British protection on November 17, 1922