O n 2 June 1924 President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act, also known as the Snyder Act, granting ...

Sea of Troubles by Ian Rutledge and The Damascus Events by Eugene Rogan watch as the ‘sick man of Europe’ turns violent.

The Cyrillic alphabet is celebrated across the Slavonic-speaking world, but not only as an appreciation of literacy – it has ...

Once Rome’s main artery south, for centuries the Via Appia has been taken as proof of Roman greatness.

The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain by Nicholas Popper explores ...

Ireland’s experience of partition informed the attitudes of people across the island towards British plans for Palestine.

When the English and Nazi German football teams met for the first time on British soil in 1935, the game was not the headline ...

The Loch Ness Monster’s first appearance on film captured both the hype and the scepticism surrounding cinema’s newest star. Whether people elsewhere believe in the existence of a Loch Ness ‘monster’ ...

Following his accession, the majority of James I’s new English subjects accepted their Scottish king with ‘comforte and ...

In 2020 Britain’s official mapping body, the Ordnance Survey, removed from its library of maps a three-mile walking tour of ...

Women, wrote the feminist Charlotte Stopes in 1890, were suffering under ‘the Despotism of the goddess Fashion’. Stopes ...

Eugene Rogan is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford. His latest book is The Damascus ...