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Environmental pressures need not always spark conflict – lessons from history show how crisis can be avoided

As resources become increasingly vulnerable to environmental fluctuations, climate change is often framed as a trigger for violence.

Jay Silverstein

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable. People today shouldn’t.

In 1177BC, Amurapi, the last king of Ugarit in modern-day Syria, wrote in cuneiform on baked clay to the Hittite emperor Suppiluliuma II: “My...

In the early hours of July 18, 1918, the Franco-American counter-offensive against German positions began at Aisne-Marne in northern France. The...