Africa & the World
Africans and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Complicity, Agency and Demand
It is one of history’s most uncomfortable debates: who sold, who bought, and who made the trade possible.
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Trade & Economy
Why Britain? The Industrial Revolution Was Not Inevitable
Coal, colonies, culture or cheap labour: historians still disagree about why the machine age began where it did.
Politics & Power
Did Marie Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?
The most quoted insult in French history was written down when its supposed speaker was a child living in another country.
Trade & Economy
Did the Black Death Make Workers Richer?
Half of Europe’s labour force vanished. For some who survived, that created a bargaining power they had never had.
Africa & the World
Who Really Built the Pyramids?
Not slaves, and certainly not aliens. The evidence points to paid, organised and proud Egyptian workers.