Alexander Lee on why Machiavelli wrote The Prince
Rana Mitter on Tsiang Tingfu, pre-revolutionary China’s last bridge with the West
Francis J. Gavin on the terrible dilemmas of leadership in a thermonuclear world
Paris in the Belle Époque with Marie Kawthar Daouda
James Marriott on why human art matters in the age of AI
Lawrence Freedman on John McDonald, poker-playing popularizer of game theory
Bringing history to the public with Alice Loxton
Katja Hoyer on East Germany's battle for technology
How advertising consumed the counter-culture with Ian Leslie
Gudrun Persson on Russia’s forever war against Ukraine
Catherine Ostler on Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Electress of many talents
Ronald Reagan's grand strategy with William Inboden
Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload
Marketing Classical music with Richard Bratby
Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion
John Law and financial crises with Kwasi Kwarteng
Laura Freeman on Helen Sutherland, brave cultivator of the beautiful
Josef Joffe on Germany, the engine that couldn't
Women of the ancient world with Daisy Dunn
Maurizio Viroli on how we can learn from history
James Barr on George McGhee, American father to Britain’s Suez Crisis
Philip Bobbitt on the decay and renewal of the US constitutional order
The history of democracy with Erica Benner
Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy
Dominic Sandbrook on Jesse Ventura, the wrestling governor who blazed a trail for Trump
Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union
The age of upheaval
Simon Mayall on the history of the modern Middle East
James Hardie on Heinrich Biber, composer of rapture and ravings
Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism
Caravaggio’s ‘last’ painting
Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
Vanessa Harding on Nehemiah Wallington, Puritan chronicler who had far less fun than Pepys
Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy
The Entente Cordiale with T.G. Otte
Mariano Sigman on how language has shaped human consciousness
Peter Frankopan on Anna Komnene, the princess who chronicled Byzantium’s changing fortunes
Nathan Shachar on ideology in science
The evolution of terrorist threat
Gregory Feifer on the mirage of Russian power
Gillian Clark on the many ways of seeing Saint Monica
Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe
Will AI revolutionise education?
Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics
Jenny McCartney on Jean Denis, Comte Lanjuinais, fearless opponent of The Terror
Josef Joffe on the end of 'the end of history'
Werner Herzog
Michael Broers on how Napoleon built a continent
Aspasia of Miletus: queen of the Athenian salon
Norman Stone on the 1860s
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