Inventing Hindu supremacy

Feb 27, 2024 | Articles, History

Vinayak Savarkar ridiculed Gandhi, preaching that anti-Muslim violence was the only means to unite India into a nation.

Inside the new science of history

Feb 20, 2024 | History

Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask.

Satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts

Oct 26, 2023 | History, News

Declassified cold-war spy satellite images have thrown new light on the workings of the Roman empire by revealing hundreds of previously undiscovered forts, with dramatic implications for our understanding, experts have said.

Settler colonialism

Oct 5, 2023 | History, Politics & Human Rights

Displacing and destroying peoples by colonization is not just a historical Western evil but a global and contemporary one.

Justice for Neanderthals!

Sep 18, 2023 | History, Opinion

They were long derided as knuckle-draggers, but new discoveries are setting the record straight. As we rethink the nature of the Neanderthals, we could also learn something about our own humanity.

Shaping history – ten years studying one Wikipedia article

Nov 24, 2022 | History

Rather than exhibiting rational consensus among dispassionate observers, Wikipedia mirrored the passion, emotion, and violence of Tahrir Square in Cairo in 2011. Did Wikipedia help shape the political events of the Egyptian Revolution?