European History

Transing Joan

She, Joan. You, hack

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Rhyme of the times

Within six weeks of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, most of Europe was at war

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The unification of Germany

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the path of German unification, from the failed revolutions of 1848 to the creation of Bismarck’s Reich

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Seeing the big picture

The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition

Features
Imaginary country

The land of Morbia was revealed to me in a dream

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Where in the world

In the post-pandemic world, travel is all in the mind

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Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire

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How exceptional is Britain’s monarchy?

Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black discuss British and European conceptions of monarchy throughout history

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Grand old warrior

Nigel Jones recalls the time he spent in the home of the legendary German writer Ernst Jünger

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France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about what made French politics and society distinctive in the decades before and after WWI

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