Matthew Hughes

Historian

Matthew Hughes is professor of military history at Brunel University London. His books include Britain’s Pacification of Palestine (CUP, 2019)

Recent articles by Matthew Hughes

Men from Bethlehem in Jerusalem in 1894, when the territory identified as Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire. At the start of the 19th century Palestine's population was mostly Arab, with a small Jewish minority, but from the 1880s waves of settlers rapidly augmented the Jewish population (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Israel and the Palestinians: a history of conflict in 8 key episodes