The vagaries of palace politics are notoriously difficult to record. Historians should pay attention to rumour. D onald Trump ...
British soldiers fighting in the American Revolutionary War were unprepared for the terrain awaiting them across the Atlantic ...
How many planets are there? As with the discovery of Uranus, the answer depends on who you ask. Detail from Joseph Wright of ...
Rosemary Wakeman’s The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941 is a tale of three cities linked by ...
The first year of Edward I’s reign saw waves of strictures placed on a Jewish community in an already perilous situation. It ...
What makes someone a king? More importantly, what unmakes a king? Henry II’s experiment in co-kingship saw one Henry III fall ...
The concerns of daily life prompted early modern people to seek reassurance in fate, stars, and astrologers.
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della ...
The discovery of America should have given the Spanish economy a giant boost, but in 1503, three years before the death of Christopher Columbus, the city of Seville in Castile was awarded the ...
The coronation of the first Elizabeth is of considerable interest to us and of greater historical importance than most. Not only was it the last occasion on which the Latin service was used, as ...
John Wilkes believed in liberty, freedom of speech and freedom of action. He was a keen member of the Hell-Fire club, which met dressed as monks to parody Roman Catholic rites and to enjoy women ...
In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...