A review of British Prime Ministers’ attitudes to Europe reveals that the UK’s political elite has never really got what the EU is about.

A meeting between Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1942 raises interesting questions.

  We are at the end of chapter 43 and we find Gibbon in full on enlightenment mode. The reign of Justinian happened to coincide with a couple of comets, some significant earthquakes and a major plague. Previous ages would have agreed with the Byzantines themselves and taken these as communications from God but Gibbon

The kingdom of Aragon was a major naval power in the Middle Ages. Its sailors skills at seacraft gave it power – and that power was used to carve out a maritime empire in the western Mediterranean.   Indeed its influence was felt in the eastern half of that sea as well. At its height it

Belisarius had a rather tragic end to his life for someone with such a great career as a soldier.

History books themselves have their own history.  History has always been a subject that interests people, and it was always a reasonably large proportion of whatever the available media of the day was.  And as parchment gave way to paper, and paper in turn became a mass market commodity more and more people were able