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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...

Georgina Weldon: Victorian Visionary

Something of a celebrity in the Victorian period, Georgina Weldon took on the legal and medical establishment, and won.

Emily Midorikawa

Georgina Weldon, a Victorian media sensation and campaigner against Britain’s archaic lunacy laws, liked to present herself as a restrained individual – someone thrust into the limelight due to circumstances beyond her control. And while such self-depictions were...

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...

Blood and Iron, by Katja Hoyer

A new history of Germany from Bismarck to Armistice Day.

Justin Doherty

The seeds of the German nation, nursed into being by the wily statesman Bismarck, were sown in Prussia’s humiliation in the Napoleonic Wars. By the time the fragmented German states got their act together, fought back and won at Leipzig in 1813, the journey to...