Meeting the Mavericks with Nick Higham
Nick Higham tells us about his vibrant cast of British servicemen who fought to save Baku from the Turks in 1918
Colonialism
A collection of 10 Posts
The Royal Navy's Campaign to Suppress the Slave Trade with Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor's book, Predator of the Seas, follows the life of an extraordinary vessel
The Lost Kingdoms of South America with Laurence Blair
South Americans are looking at their continent's history afresh, explains Laurence Blair
The Ghosts That Haunt the British Museum with Noah Angell
Writer Noah Angell on the ghosts of the British Museum
Ghost Mountain
William Atkins explores the banishment of the Zulu prince, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, to the remote island of St Helena
The Trial of Maximilian I, the 'Last Emperor of Mexico'
Edward Shawcross explores ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico who crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne
The Ruin of All Witches
Before Salem there was Springfield. Malcolm Gaskill reveals the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation
