History Matters

The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity.

What happened to the French airmen in the Second World War who bombed France to help liberate it?

Who were the female blacksmiths of medieval England? 

America’s southern states were once strongholds for the Democratic Party. In 1952, Eisenhower decided to win them over.

The unholy alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire in 1530 caused great concern but had little military success.

Britain’s Second World War Conservatives and their utopian dream of world government. 

Was Richard III a just king or just doing what a king should do? 

The puppet theatres of Kazakhstan combined Soviet ideals with Kazakh traditions to educate the masses.

For more than a thousand years BC and AD have bisected our understanding of time. Should we keep them?

Was the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 inevitable?