With contributions from Harriet Walter, Christopher Eccleston, hip-hop artist Testament and French street artist P-Boy, Simon ...

The role of personality and charm in running a state is one theme of Richard Bassett’s superb book, the first English ...

As early as the 1830s, Polish noblemen and refugees from the Polish-Russian War of 1830-1831, who had fought ... was that the fire was started by French Communards attempting to avenge their ...

The story of Argentina, from before the Europeans arrived to the modern-day, also tells us the story of South America at the same time. From its immense size to the origin of its name to its civil war ...

PIERRE ANDRÉ LATREILLE, the brilliant French naturalist ... He returned to Paris in 1788, and during the Revolution was imprisoned at Bordeaux; but was released on account of the interest ...

Responding to his interlocutors in NLR’s symposium, Blackburn foregrounds the contradictions of capital and political rule in the Atlantic slave systems that opened space for class struggle.

Dean Kalimniou shares a playful exploration of historical hoaxes and mathematical pranks, tracing the tale of a fabricated Greek explorer in Australia to the legendary Nicolas Bourbaki—a fictional ...

A product of an 1830 revolution against Dutch rule ... The four other parties that make up his alliance are the French-speaking centre-right Reformist Movement and centrist Les Engages, as well as the ...

Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. 1570: Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I for heresy ...

In 1818, he became a member of the secret organization Filiki Etairia, which made the preparations of the Greek Revolution. He was present during ... using guerilla tactics. In 1828, the French army ...

The Oscar award-winning actor Gene Hackman and his musician wife, Betsy Arakawa, have been found dead at their home in Sante ...