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The photograph above, taken in May 1941, shows meadows near Bemerton, Wiltshire (UK), with a girl named Alison sitting on a plank bridge across a stream. Several features would immediately catch the eye of a landscape historian working in the empirical or materialist tradition inspired by W. G. Hoskins’s celebrated 1954 study, The Making of the […]
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For four decades now, historians have lamented intelligence as the “missing dimension” of diplomatic history and international relations, the lack of relevance afforded “long-term intelligence experience to current policy,” and the consequent dearth of sophisticated analyses of how intelligence influences relations between states.[1] My book, Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early […]
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I was 31 years old — or as it now seems, young —when my first book appeared in May 1972. Half a century later a second edition of The Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640, revised, corrected, and adorned with a striking new cover image, has just become the latest […]
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“Carpe diem” is one of the most recognisable Latin phrases: in our day it is a popular slogan on T-shirts; millions know the words through the movie Dead Poets Society, in which the actor Robin Williams in his role as English teacher tells his students: “Carpe diem. Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary”. […]
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Nandini Pandey (author of The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 2018) stepped out with Jennifer Stager (Seeing Color in Classical Art, 2022) for a walk around the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, MD and a conversation about Stager’s new book. NP: Tell me about your book. What are some of the big questions […]
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Above you will find an image of the Amendola Fiera station on Milan’s tube line number 1. It was opened in 1964 and is located in Piazza Giovanni Amendola ‘statista’. The square hails Giovanni as a statesman; the station as a ‘martire’ (martyr) of Anti-Fascism. In any Italian city, it is easy to brush up on your […]
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Serbia has been involved in events which have shaped the modern world – most notably in 1914 and during the Cold War and the 1990s Yugoslav wars – yet its history remains little known. In my new book, A Concise History of Serbia, recently published by Cambridge University Press, I show how migrations, encounters with […]
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The Roman Empire was constantly in motion. People, products, and ideas crisscrossed the Mediterranean at what must have seemed like lightning speed. One of these ideas was the worship of the Egyptian gods Isis and Sarapis, which first appeared in Greece in the late 4th century BCE. By the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian […]
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