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Nicola Cornick

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Families and Ancestors: An Infinite History

Where does ancestry sit within history? They are closely related, so says the author of a new book on a French family covering 300 years.

Emma Rothschild

History and ancestry are sisters, or sisters-in-law. Historians and family historians sit next to each other in archives and public libraries. We take photographs of the same sources; we use the same online repositories and the same digital records. The universe of...

Summer Reads from Aspects of History

Our authors and contributors recommend books to take on summer holidays.

Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryPaul BernardiTaking a well-earned break from the adventures of Beobrand in his much-loved Bernicia Chronicles series, Matthew Harffy moves forward the best part of one hundred and fifty years in this, his most recent and...

Toussaint Louverture: Black Spartacus

The Wolfson Prize winner writes about the relationship between Toussaint Louverture and Napoleon Bonaparte is an intriguing one, although they never met.

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Sudhir Hazareesingh is the winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize for his book, Black Spartacus, the Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. This article is taken from the first issue of Aspects of History. The Haitian revolution was one of the defining episodes in...

The Wolfson History Prize Interviews

We talk to the nominees of the prize about subjects such as child survivors of the Holocaust, Haitian revolutionaries, knowledge under attack, and more.

The Wolfson History Prize 2021 Rebecca Clifford Rebecca, congratulations on your nomination for the Wolfson History Prize of 2021 from Aspects of History. Why did you choose your particular subject? This is a two-pronged answer. Most important prong, I’ve worked with...

Heart of Darkness: The Slave Ship Zong

The Atlantic slave trade has many gruesome tales. This tragic and brutal massacre is one of the most shameful.

Giles Milton

Captain Luke Collingwood was used to grim voyages across the Atlantic, but this one had been worse than most. Dysentery, diarrhoea and smallpox had already claimed the lives of seven of the crew aboard the slave ship Zong. The slave cargo had suffered a far higher...