Realising the world was changing around them, the Qing government began sending students abroad.…

Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front.…

Caroline Reed looks at the propaganda campaigns accompanying the D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944.…

During the eighteenth century female authors became increasingly numerous and industrious; while as readers, writes Robert Halsband, thanks to the spread of the new circulating libraries, women began to form ‘a significant sector’…

That Mao Zedong has changed the course of modern history is beyond dispute. the extent of his influence, both in China and abroad, has however been a matter of fierce debate since his death in 1976.…

Josip Broz, known as Tito since the 1930s, was elected President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia on January 13th, 1953.…

An intriguing glimpse into the complex politics of the late 19th century Balkans.…

What was life like for medieval prostitutes? A case in the German town of Nördlingen reveals a hellish world of exploitation and violence.…

The largest of Pompeii's legalised Lupanars is the only surviving ‘purpose-built’ Roman brothel.…

The architects who adapted to the demands, whims and chicanery of the Stalinist state.…