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Jan 1, 2025 · Kashmir, Leipzig Trials, Renaissance Prague. Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia – Amedeo Feniello’s history of the Camorra – has this much in common with the case against them: it’s all about the evidence.

Russia’s entry into the global economy was met with glee by international firms in the early 1990s. The exodus has been just as sudden. The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945 by N.A.M. Rodger looks above decks for the story of …

In the current issue: The destruction of Medieval England’s Jews, British soldiers vs the wilderness in the American Revolutionary War, unreported murder in East Germany, ‘mad duchess’ Elizabeth Cavendish, and more.

2 days ago · ‘O ne more such victory and we are undone’, exclaimed India’s Governor-General, Sir Henry Hardinge, after the battle of Ferozeshah of December 21st and 22nd, 1845. In the 88 years that had elapsed since Plassey and witnessed the spread of British domination across the whole of the Indian sub-continent with the exception of the Punjab, British regular and East India Company raised ...

On 28 August 1839, the earl of Eglinton hosted a ‘medieval’ tournament to mark Queen Victoria’s coronation. It was a damp squib.

6 days ago · E arly on 8 February 1942 a plane crashed shortly after take-off near the ‘Wolf’s Lair’, Adolf Hitler’s headquarters at Rastenburg in East Prussia, killing the dictator’s armaments minister, the founder of Organisation Todt (OT). The death of Fritz Todt, whose pessimism about victory in the East against Stalin was well known, prompted speculation that he had been assassinated ...

Feb 3, 2025 · A lthough many of the potential readers of Tim Blanning’s latest book will not previously have heard of its hero – Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland – they will no doubt expect much from its author. Blanning’s previous works – including, most recently, biographies of Frederick the Great and George I – have earned him an enviable reputation for conveying ...

Dec 12, 2024 · ‘Courageous, morally complex history – and superb scholarship’ Nile Green is Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA and author of Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah (W.W. Norton). I n the mid-1500s, the Roshaniyya preached to the people of the Afghan highlands that Allah had spoken to them in their lowly Pashto language.

Ukraine War One Year On . W ith 24 February marking the first anniversary of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine (Crimea and Donbas having been occupied in 2014), William Rees looked at the precedents for Vladimir Putin’s narrative of Western collapse (‘Decline and Fall’).Later in the year, George Garnett reflected on Putin’s …