This article explores the role of churches in Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, focusing on their efforts to promote reconciliation and address the legacy of intercommunal violence. The first part analyses initiatives that took place between 1998 an...

Increasingly, there is an appreciation of using experimental work to reconstruct how peoplesquared up to the challenges of life in the past. It is a fi eld of archaeology which has caughtthe public imagination, so this collection of conference papers, ‘Playing with the ...

The revolutions of 1917 transformed Russia forever. A century on,Russia again finds itself at a crossroads with President Putin set foranother term in office but domestic economic and political challengesmounting.

Syria’s bloody civil war suddenly became even more tangled in September with the start of a massive Russian bombing campaign on targets in the country. Two historians offer their personal takes on why Vladimir Putin ordered airstrikes