When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved people.

This paper covers a broad range of complex and related dynamics that collectively contributed to the conquests of Mexico and Peru by the Spanish. 

I first read John Hirst (1942-2016) as an undergraduate in the late 1990s as part of a subject on 19th-century Australian history. We discussed convict history and explored contrasting views about its role and function in the early colonies. What was life as a convict like?

This essay will address the advantages and disadvantages of historical feature films and will compare them to other representations of the past.

On Tuesday, the 4th of November, 1806, the electors of the Borough of Shrewsbury assembled in the town’s guildhall to choose their next parliamentary representatives. There were three candidates for two seats...

Western Civilisation is a product of its past. While it has been influenced by many ideas and events throughout its vast history, it has been primarily shaped by a contest of faith between human reason and divine revelation.

In his classic work, the Republic, Plato argues that, in the ideal political state, power should be entrusted into the hands of true philosophers. 

Winston Churchill deftly understood Adolf Hitler’s ideology and changed the outcome of WWII by taking a psychological offensive against him.

To Robert Menzies, freedom of worship and religion was a pillar of his own Liberal philosophy, as well as a fruit of his religious faith.

This paper examines how Spanish kings ensured the optimum reliability of their intelligence networks within Europe and with America.