History

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Constantine and the birth of religious tolerance

Vincenzina Santoro | 11 March 2013 |

tags: Christianity, history, Roman Empire

It is exactly 1700 years since the Emperor Constantine gave official recognition to Christianity.

Richard’s remains

Angela Shanahan | 08 February 2013 |

tags: DNA testing, history, Richard III

Science confirms some physical truths about a medieval English king but leaves his character forever under a cloud.

Early Christianity: a tough gig

Mike Aquilina | 29 October 2012 |

tags: Chrstianity, history

The Roman Empire was far more hostile than today's world.

A Kulturkampf primer

Michael Cook | 03 July 2012 |

tags: Catholic Church, culture wars, history, Kulturkampf

The best-known culture war was fought in 19th Century Germany, pitting Prussia's Iron Chancellor against the Catholic Church. The Iron Chancellor lost.

Statistically significant angels

Zac Alstin | 11 November 2011 |

tags: history, human dignity, warfare

Did the 20th Century really usher in a decline in violence, even with two World Wars?

Burghley: the Elizabethan mastermind

Francis Phillips | 03 November 2011 |

tags: history, Reformation, UK

Brilliant, bold and cold-blooded, Elizabeth's chief statesman dominated his age and shaped the history of England.

Gorbachev at eighty

Archie Brown | 28 February 2011 |

tags: Communism, history

On Wednesday, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, celebrates his 80th birthday. A leading British scholar salutes a man who changed Russia and the world for the better.

History lessons from Hollywood

Michael Kirke | 22 February 2011 |

tags: history, Hollywood, religion

Two films reimagining history -- one about the Gulag, the other about a saint - show how much good Hollywood could do.

Africans puzzled by Western attacks on faith

Martyn Drakard | 11 January 2011 |

tags: Africa, Christianity, history, religion

Africans cannot understand why Christians in the Christian West should be persecuted for expressing their faith in public.

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Francis Phillips | 02 August 2010 |

tags: biography, history

The famous Oxford historian was brilliant but bedeviled by the emotional deprivation of his childhood.

Bearing the burden of the past

Michael Casey | 25 July 2010 |

tags: genocide, history, responsibility

We were not actors in wrongs committed by our ancestors. But don’t we have some sort of responsibility for them?

Robin Hood

William Park | 26 May 2010 |

tags: films, history, Robin Hood

Ridley Scott's reworking of the story of Robin Hood is not existentially serious or historically accurate, but the battle scenes are terrific.

Choose Your Weapons

Francis Phillips | 02 May 2010 |

tags: foreign policy, history

A study of British foreign secretaries over two centuries raises perennial questions about international relations.

Lest we forget: 17 April 1975

Var Hong Ashe | 17 April 2010 |

tags: Cambodia, Communism, history

On this day 35 years ago, the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh.

Historic evidence for Christ

Michael Coren | 31 March 2010 |

tags: Easter, history, Jesus

Forget Dawkins and Hitchens. Listen to Josephus and Tacitus.

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