Specific wars and campaigns

The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism and gender equality.

In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy.

In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy.

The Palestine Campaign has become one of the most glorified military campaigns of the twentieth century.

Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively political work.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East.

On 9 July 2011, South Sudan became an independent state after more than half a century of civil conflict wrought with human rights abuse.

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey.

Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999) was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively political work.

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan.

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century.

In the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust.

The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement.

An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

The horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Goodbye to All That; the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas; and the novels of Ford Madox Ford.

'When the Nazi power was broken, I asked myself what was the best advice I could give to my fellow citizens here in this island and across the channel in our ravaged continent.

The First World War, leading to the overthrow of the Qajar regime and replacement by Reza Shah, was pivotal in the history of modern Iran.

After the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins, the victorious Winston Churchill swore to build a peace across Europe that would last a generation.

Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930) was the only one of the sons of the renowned nineteenth-century Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone to enjoy a significant political career in his own right.

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize*

In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island.

On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday.

Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment.

At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess.

In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet.

The First World War, leading to the overthrow of the Qajar regime and replacement by Reza Shah, was pivotal in the history of modern Iran.

This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II.

Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust.

On 9 July 2011, South Sudan became an independent state after more than half a century of civil conflict wrought with human rights abuse.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey.

Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment.

On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday.

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize*In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island.

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945.

After the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins, the victorious Winston Churchill swore to build a peace across Europe that would last a generation.

In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population.

A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II.

On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans.

In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet.

Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution.

What did people really believe in the Middle Ages?

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan.

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century.

A new look for Austerity.

The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan.

David Lloyd George left a profound political legacy, despite being described by the wife of his successor, Herbert Asquith, as a 'gambler without foresight'.