The day Londoners humbled an Austrian tyrant
On a Southwark side street, you can find a small plaque that reminds people that in 1850,
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On a Southwark side street, you can find a small plaque that reminds people that in 1850,
The State Secretary said that difficulties are to be expected in the coming period, but today no nation is as united within its borders and beyond as ours.
On Hungary's Day of Mourning, the martyrs executed after the 1848-49 Revolution and Freedom Fight are remembered across the country.
by Martyn Rady (Allen Lane, £30) WHEN I was at school — longer ago than I care to remember — the history I learned was essentially one of kings and queens, followed by British prime ministers and Acts of Parliament. It was not just a top-down history, it was a top history, full stop. The underlings, working people who made real history, were hardly mentioned. I thought that view of history had been discarded with the cane and blackboards, but on reading The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady, professor of central European history at University College, London, I find that I am wrong. The Habsburgs...