In an article first published by The Spectator and republished here with their kind permission...
Author - David Abulafia
Was the Black Death racist?
In this article recently published in The Spectator and republished by History Reclaimed with...
Why is Netflix pretending that Cleopatra was black?
A new Netflix ‘docuseries’ looking at the lives of powerful women in history asserts that Cleopatra...
Noel Malcolm, The Elgin Marbles: Keep, Lend or Return?
Discussion of the return of the Elgin Marbles to Athens has been guided largely by emotion rather...
Was Leonardo da Vinci’s mother a slave?
There is great excitement in Italy, which has spilled over into the British press: Carlo Vecce, a...
Captain Cook’s Aboriginal spears belong in Cambridge, not...
On the eve of the First World War, Trinity College, Cambridge deposited four spears collected by...
Ukraine, Odessa and The Black Sea
Few may have noticed Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s innocent gaffe when he introduced Volodomyr Zelensky to...
Decolonizing Imperial College: a few suggestions
Activists at Imperial College are targeting Darwin’s colleague TH Huxley. They want to rename the...
Columbus: a misguided genius
Like so many of the figures who were not long ago commemorated with enthusiasm but are now...