Depending on one’s vantage point, the meaning of the French Revolution varies. The First Republic succumbed to an imperial ...

An early modern ship’s surgeon had to treat not just broken bones but distress and trauma. I n September 1649 ship’s surgeon ...

The wine trade in medieval Tunis was lucrative, but it caused a moral quandary for the ruling Hafsids.

On 17 June 1940, when Marshal Pétain surrendered France to the Nazis, 49-year-old General Charles de Gaulle was in London. The next day he made a broadcast on the BBC: ‘Whatever happens, the flame of ...

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