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I suspect that most people's knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu wars consists of watching the film Zulu . In that movie, a heroic band of white...

A S Jasper's memories of life in Hoxton in East London, in the first two decades of the twentieth century portray a life of poverty and ...

The second volume of Hilary Mantel's novelisation of the life of Thomas Cromwell carries on the dramatic story of the reign of Henry VII...

First published in 1939 this classic study of the end of the Roman Republic and the rise of Imperial Rome still contains a wealth of scholar...

Subtitled Seamen's Organiser, Socialist and Militant Pan-Africanist this short new biography of Chris Braithwaite (known as Chris Jones...

Two events occurred while reading this book made me ruminate on the endless fascination that we have for pirates. The first was the coinci...

At first glance, some might think this is an extremely odd title for a book. After all, dialectics is essentially a philosophical term and b...

The enclosures that took place in England were part of a process of the development of productive forces in the countryside. In medieval tim...

The fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of Imperial Rome remains the central story that underpins all attempts to understand later-day ...

The discovery of forgotten transcripts of the conversations of German POW's in the Second World War, is a remarkable opportunity for s...

The English Civil War is a contested period of history. For many, it was simply a falling out amongst the English ruling classes, for others...

Recently I took part in a demonstration in Liverpool organised by the trade union movement. It as organised by Unite, and was a  protest aga...

The end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th saw an explosion in scientific and technological development. It is during this period tha...

Christian Wolmar is an unashamed railway enthusiast. He's a partisan of the idea that railways should be an absolutely central part of...

Marcus Rediker has been at the forefront of historians writing social histories of the Atlantic. In recent years he has turned his attenti...