How is the Anthropocene – the epoch in which humans have become a major force changing earth systems – changing the nature of historians' evidence base?
What does a family of wealthy philanthropists have to do with a gang of drug traffickers? The intertwined relationship between prominent businesses and criminal traffickers is probably as old as trade itself.
US Army officer and historian Brian Drohan, on a Radical Book which exposed French atrocities during the Algerian War of Independence, was censored in France, and ultimately contributed to the establishment of Amnesty International
Naomi Hossain compares President Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 to the Pakistani government's response to the 1970 Bhola Cyclone in Bangladesh, to examine the implications of disaster for legitimacy, imperial…
The Wretched of the Earth was the final work of Frantz Fanon, a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria’s struggle for independence. This new history of the 'Third World' depicted the unresolved and open-ended nature of…
Why have settler Australians remembered Australia’s history in a manner that erased Aboriginal presence, and dominated the ways in which its history has been remembered and forgotten?
Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 13-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
The publication of a telling literary depiction of the most bitter period in Kashmir's insurgency twenty years ago prompts Andrew Whitehead to consider the value to historians of fictional accounts of conflict.