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...history. Three main factors unified this vast and multicultural Empire: the ruling emperor and its capital Constantinople; the Greek language, which had replaced Latin as the imperial language by the early seventh century; and its religion, Christian Orthodox, under the guidance of its spiritual leader, the Patriarch. One of the most important and defining sacred aids in...

...history. ‘We will each write a ghost story,’ Lord Byron said one rainy evening in Switzerland in the summer of 1816. ‘There were four of us,’ Mary Shelley recalled fifteen years later. Herself, the two illustrious poets – Byron and her husband Percy Shelley – and ‘Poor Polidori,’ Byron’s hapless personal physician. Out of this moment, not one but two...

...history of outward migration. The British diaspora has had a profound influence on countries around the globe, from the United States to New Zealand and beyond. Understanding how these migrants made their homes and shaped their surroundings can add some much-needed context to the debates we have about migration today – whether we’re talking about international...