A staple of Russia and the Slavic world, borscht has inspired films and novels – and has even reached outer space.…

The staple dish of the Middle East is as contested as the region, with different peoples claiming it as their own.…

From high life to country living.…

A Native American method of tenderising meat goes global.…

The Japanese dish of humble origins that conquered the world. …

The Portuguese national dish with a global past of ingenuity and exploitation.…

The work of Elizabeth Fulhame made huge leaps in science, despite the obstacles she faced as a woman.…

The human cost and conflict behind ‘beef for everyone’.…

Documenting the men and women who took a stand against the imperial tide.…

It was not the Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the ‘Party line’, which brought an end to the era of ‘fellow travellers’, 80 years ago.…

During the Cold War, nearly a quarter of all the world’s nuclear testing took place in Kazakhstan, in secret. In 1986, a high-profile disaster in Ukraine changed that.…

The repression in China’s Xinjiang region has deep historical roots.…

Myanmar’s colonial legacy includes racial hierarchies and authoritarian government. In the new nation state, not everyone is welcome.…

In an age when nationalism is on the rise, the role of the historian becomes ever more valuable – and controversial.…

When we ask historians which genre of history they like least, the most common answer is ‘economic’. Is the field unjustly maligned?…

Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms are widely used by historians. But does anyone benefit?…

Four historians consider how their discipline can best reach a mass audience. …

Four historians consider the most fundamental question of all, one famously posed by E.H. Carr almost 60 years ago.…

Utopian ideas from an era that looked to the future with optimism.…