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The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...

Exploitation and Resistance

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the...

War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Crimean War, 1854-1856

The Crimean War is remembered in Britain mainly for its...

War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: War and Revolution in 1848

The international settlement reached at the Congress of Vienna in...

War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The defeat of Napoleon, 1806-1815

In 1810 Napoleon's France ruled or controlled the greater part...

The Armenians: Church and Culture

Professor Chartres offers an overview of the history and culture...

God Speaks First to His Englishmen: The Armada of 1588

Was English success against the Spanish Armada an instance of...

Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940–1945

The Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture This lecture highlights the...

John Graunt, the law of decline and the origins of urban historical demography

Parochial registration and the Bills of Mortality