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Earlier this summer US President Trump lambasted China in a tweet: ‘They do nothing for us,’ he wrote, but ‘just talk’. China, Trump indicated, had been too soft on North Korea’s nuclear adventurism. Yet China’s

As I take over as Editor of History Matters from Caroline Dodds Pennock, I’m pleased to introduce our new Best Books feature. Best Books will ask a historian to recommend the most important books to

At death, we enter myth—our lives and work become the subject of stories told by others. Charlotte Brontë was one of the myth-makers. Shortly after her sisters’ deaths in 1848-49, she penned a 'Biographical Notice

If there is one German author who appears emblematic for the brutality of the First World War, the glorification of violence and the fascist reading of the wartime experience from 1914 to 1918, it is

We tend to assume that the struggle for civil rights is a modern invention and that, before the Enlightenment, the world was ruled by despotic kings and emperors. And yet, democracy as we know it

If you had read my Wikipedia entry several years ago you would have found the following: "His long-awaited biography of Lord Haw-Haw is now long overdue." Thank you, to that anonymous scribe. Even some friends