Europe

In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centur...

The three modern Baltic states - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - may occupy small tracts...

Know Your Dane—Unlocking the Secrets to the Danish Mentality is a comprehensive gui...

The story of the Highland clans of Scotland is famous, the names celebrated, and the deed...

A history of Burgundy could more accurately be described as the "history of the Burgundi...

Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to s...

Famine – one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in the Book of Revelation &nda...

Today, “The Anarchy” is used to describe the period in English history from ...

Since several large city-states such as Milan and Venice growing rich on the prosperous M...

Finland is a Nordic country today bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia. Its population of...

 On the morning of June 22, 1948, the HMT Empire Windrush, a repurposed German troo...

Of all the steppe peoples in the medieval period, perhaps none were more important to Eu...

Even in the wake of Napoleon’s departure from the scene, the continental powers ha...

The relationship between Scotland and England has always been rocky. For most of their h...

On New Year’s Day 1993, Czechoslovakia broke into two separate countries, the Czec...

The Netherlands has had a complex and turbulent history involving the interplay of multip...

In January 1848, Sicily had a major revolution, which provoked widespread uprisings and ...

“Troops assembled villagers and townspeople, loaded them onto trucks – many ...

The events of 1848-1849 began to pull the peninsula together, however. In January, 1848,...

Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in lat...

On March 25, 1957, Italy signed the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Econom...

"They have soldiers. We only have arguments." – French Foreign Minister Theophile D...

It would not be a stretch to say that for a very tiny geographical territory (just 20,747...

Even after the British took control of Egypt, knowledge about the Nile remained sparse, m...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenou...

The history of Ukraine is a fascinating story of how cultures, political systems, religio...

“Had I just 10,000 Cossacks, I would have conquered the whole world.” –...

Shaped like an uneven triangle, Catalonia is comprised of four provinces that occupy an ...

There is extensive empirical literature about memorialization, but very little theory de...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenou...

 Queen Elizabeth I took Parliament by surprise when she began her speech of November...

On January 30, 1649, King Charles I was led to scaffolding in Whitehall, London where he ...

Emmeline Pankhurst was to women’s suffrage in England what Susan B. Anthony was for...

The plague, for all its horrors, became a known quantity that moved through a predictable...

The Holy Roman Empire was a fascinating institution as well as one of the most perplexin...

Artillery and handgonnes had been known since the early 14th century but only became effe...

After two world wars that had decimated the continent of Europe in little more than thir...

Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Years’ War still looms large in ...

The Jacobites conjure up many images to 21st century Britons, including romantic heroism...

This book consists of the following two titles:Russian Revolution: The Russian Revolution...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. During the year 1066, England had ...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. ‘Remember, remember, the fif...

Nicknamed ‘The Anarchy' for its unprecedented levels of chaos and disorder, the suc...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Siege of Leningrad was one of ...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Charles Dickens remains – 20...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. ‘Il Duce’, Benito Muss...

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginnin...

Historical and mythological anecdotes are given in this fascinating compilation of storie...

The Mongols were pushed out of the region by the Poles and Lithuanians, who then occupied...

Did you know that the Dutch were some of the first who came up with stocks? They were als...