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...course of action. An obvious example is the story, referred to repeatedly in the Odyssey, of how Agamemnon, the Greek commander-in-chief in the Trojan War, returned home after the War and was immediately murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus, and how in due course Agamemnon's murder was avenged by his son Orestes. Odysseus, too, is on his way home...

...courses and qualifications In 2012, I recorded this audio in which two leading historians of the First World War discuss their subject, and in particular the question of the origins of the war, with me. Professor John Röhl and Professor Christopher Clark explain the fascination of the topic and give their differing views on why war broke out in 1914. John Röhl has spent...

...free to practise their religion at any time in private, or in limited, legally appointed times in public. The same rules applied to Catholics in Protestant states. Jews, Muslims and other minorities would have to wait at least another century for their religious freedom and full citizenship. Given the prevailing gender inequality, it is unsurprising that women’s rights...