The General Strike of 1926 with Jonathan Schneer
The General Strike of 1926 marked a precarious moment in British political and social history, as Jonathan Schneer explains
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Adolf Hitler's Strange Death with Caroline Sharples
On 30 April 1945 Adolf Hitler committed suicide in Berlin. But the story of the Führer's death is more complicated than these bare facts suggest, explains the historian Caroline Sharples
The Hapsburgs and the French Revolution
Upon the outbreak of the French Revolution, Europe's first family, the Hapsburg, were propelled into a crisis that they struggled to contain
Firing A Punt Gun (1923)
We look at a strange, divisive and forgotten weapon that was banned in the USA but tolerated in Great Britain
Politics and the Past: A Spring Update from Unseen Histories
In President Trump's eyes the British Prime Minister 'is no Winston Churchill'. But is that such a bad thing?
King Henry VII and a Year of Great Peril for the Tudors
In 1497 Henry VII faced multiple threats to his throne. That summer his survival, and that of the House of Tudor, seemed very much in question
A History of Intelligence with David Brydan
David Brydan, the author of Smart, explains how our ideas about human intelligence have changed over time
Mary Anne Clarke and the Duke of York Scandal (1809)
We look back at the story of the Duke of York Scandal of 1809 when Mary Anne Clarke and Colonel Wardle upended British politics.
New History Books for March 2026
From Silence to the Battle of Trafalgar, King Henry VII to Adolf Hitler
The Killing Age with Clifton Crais
One of the great terrors of the Enlightenment lay in the way it justified death as the cost of progress. Clifton Crais explains his view of 'the Killing Age'