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
Medieval European history is a vast and ever-growing field, so coming up with a top ten book-list is no small task. To make the job manageable, what follows is a “top ten” of quite a
The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico was pummeled by Hurricane Maria less than a month after Hurricane Harvey unleashed catastrophic flooding on the Texas city
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
In curating an exhibition for Black History Month on the topic of the legacies of slavery and abolition in Manchester, I focussed first on the