Trust in Change

Peter Mandler
Historians and curators in heritage organisations, such as the National Trust, do not invent the past, they uncover it. 

Leading Ladies

Annalisa Nicholson
The French tradition of the royal mistress gave new opportunities for women at the court of Charles II.

Death and Sacrifice in the Franco-Prussian War

Karine Varley
The conflict that broke out between France and an ambitious new German state 150 years ago can lay claim to be the first modern war.

The Rise of the Valkyries

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
Life and death in a Viking battle depended not on military prowess, but on the favour of the valkyries. Why were these mythical figures, who decided a warrior’s fate, female?