The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

T he battle of Rorke’s Drift of 22-23 January 1879 was refought in 2018 when a London Underground employee wrote an account of the siege on Dollis Hill Tube station’s notice b ...

In the 1820s London was the largest city in the world. With more than a million inhabitants, it lay at the heart of an expanding empire. It was a city of learning – medical students received training ...

Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...

Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James Romm looks for hope amid the sound and fury surrounding the great orator of ...

At the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West seemed set on a path towards cooperation. Why did it veer into renewed ...

The Thirty Years War devastated continental Europe, killing millions and creating as many refugees. How did they experience ...

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Gun, the Ship and ...

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism ...

In 1787 the Quakers of Portsmouth made their anti-slavery campaign official by forming The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, joining forces with prominent abolitionists such as ...

What language did the Romans speak? Latin was used throughout the Roman Empire, but it shared space with a host of other languages and dialects... A stela with Oscan inscription from Pompeii, first ...

Tunis, December 19th, 1942. It was the day of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic feast of sacrifice. The retreat of Rommel's army had turned the city into a massive military camp. In the late afternoon, a ...