Following the Fourth Crusade, the Crusaders partitioned the Byzantine Empire and established their own states. The most important was the Latin Empire in Constantinople.
While antisemitism was common throughout European society, from the 1880s onwards the Russian Empire witnessed frequent violent attacks on Jewish communities known as pogroms.
Immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s famous film, the mutiny aboard the Russian warship Potemkin was one of the most iconic moments of the 1905 Revolution.
The Raid on Dieppe in 1942 was a military disaster, but the lessons learnt by the Allies paved the way for the success of D-Day.
The Great Schism, the division between the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, had a complicated theological and political background.
The Great Schism was a monumental event that impacted the development of religious and geopolitical processes across the world.
A hero of great repute and fame, Lawrence of Arabia was an interesting and complex figure in British and Arab military history.
In December 1825, a small group of Russian officers launched an ill-fated insurrection that was celebrated by the Soviets as the First Russian Revolution.
