Julie Anne Taddeo As the most watched period drama in television history, Downton Abbey has met with popular success but…
Tag: History
From Iraq to Libya, Louise Kettles asks whether the UK has learned to learn from its past mistakes in Middle-Eastern military interventions.
An account of how bureaucratic procedures created the space for political conflict and slander in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bulgaria and what…
International Relations
Q&A with Stephen Bowman, Author of The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945
Tell us a bit about The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945 My book is about the Pilgrims Society, which…
By Randall Stevenson On Bastille Day, 2000, why did 3 million people sit down to a picnic lunch along a…
Since the Federal Republic of Germany’s admission into NATO in 1955, German–American relations have been a cornerstone of transatlantic and…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Judging a book by its cover: Designing ‘The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy’
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
“There are Muslims in China? I didn’t know that.” Yes, indeed, there are—possibly as many as 25-30 million souls—and they…
By Anna Clark It is widely assumed that the concept of human rights only emerged after 1945. However, I have…
By Catriona M.M. Macdonald Historians frequently address reputations in their work, indeed they are central to some of the most…