Anyone who claims that an historical event was formative must necessarily assume that things would have turned out differently if that...

Note: all underlines or italics within quotes are the authors’ own unless otherwise stated Nazi Germany is often thought of as the...

Introduction In 168 BC, the Seleukid king, Antiokhos IV, stood victorious at the head of an army which had breached Ptolemaic defences,...

Upon the collapse of the Tsarist regime in Russia in 1917, the Bolsheviks were tasked with confronting the ‘national question’ - that is,...

In the period between the conquest of Constantinople and the end of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire rapidly increased in...

The argument that the revolt in Zanzibar of 1964—the Zanzibar Revolution—was determined by a sole determinant, in a binary choice between...

In the turbulent days of the late third century CE, in the year 268, a frontier region of the Roman empire, Palmyra, crucial in the...

Following the American Revolution, the new United States’ desire for more land was at the forefront of policy. Although the Indigenous...

On the 29th November 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine. Following decades of struggle between its Jewish and...

Shah Abbas I, the ruler of the Safavid empire from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, was accorded a legendary reputation...

The Timurid and Safavid empires were vast and in perennial fluctuation. This meant that the leaders of these polities required highly...

Introduction: In the wake of Stalin’s death, the Soviet Union witnessed a power struggle at the top of the Central Committee. This saw...

The Spanish Empire at its height spanned most of the American continent, from California to the southernmost reaches of Chile, and...

Charles of Anjou is a controversial figure in Medieval history. Remembered for the Sicilian Vespers in 1282 and the subsequent loss of...

The genocide of the European Jews is an issue debated in much historiography – through opposing schools of thoughts arguing for an...

The standard popular narrative of the American Civil War is that it was a war fought to end slavery, pitched between the slaveholding...

The Derg,[1] or the Provisional Military Administration Council (PMAC), was the revolutionary military regime, led by Haile Mariam...

Recent Latin American Cold War historiography attempts to transcend scholarship in the 80s and 90s that tethered the region’s Cold War...

The Council of Nicaea was the first ecumenical council of Christendom, held from May to August of AD 325. Emperor Constantine the Great...

Any peace process involving the presence of a third party raises questions as to the nature and extent of this participation. With...