Afghanistan 1842
The British, alarmed by the association of Dost Mohammad and Russia, decided to invade Afghanistan with the intention of creating a puppet government that would serve the interests of British India.
Wet Nursing
Why were infants wet nursed in early modern England? What made women confront the opposing medical profession, the church sermons and the contemporary theoretical philosophy?
Jack the Ripper
For many years now, speculation has been rife about who exactly was ‘Jack the Ripper’. Suspects range from John Pizer, a Jewish shoemaker to Sir William Gull, the Royal Physician.
Siege of Vienna
By 1500 the Crusades ended; the last and most powerful champion of the "will of god" was the Ottoman Empire. It had annexed Serbia, Rumania and Hungary. Their first attempt to bring Austria, and the rest of Europe...
The Dzhurma Incident
In 1947, David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky published their book Forced Labor in Soviet Russia. In this book they tell the horrific story of how 12,000 gulag prisoners perished on the SS Dzhurma...