This invokes many references to architectural details from Homer’s account of Odysseus’ eventual homecoming: the threshold, ...

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman looks beyond the empty tomb to find perhaps ...

They go low, we go lower. The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain by George Owers offers up the origins ...

It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...

Childbirth in the early modern period was a battleground between midwives and surgeons. The Chamberlen family of surgeons ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and ...

The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John ...

The slave trade was an international criminal enterprise. In 1811 an uprising on the slaving ship Amelia off the coast of ...

In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could ...

Chinese astronomers and the European Jesuits who worked alongside them found evidence of China’s antiquity in the heavens.

Elected president of Argentina in 1946, Juan Perón was re-elected in 1952. The origins of his fall have been traced back to the premature death that year of his wife, the glamorous Evita, of cancer in ...

Would Mary Shelley have conceived of her novel of 1818, Frankenstein, without the work of the Italian scientist Luigi Galvani? Looking back at its creation, she recalled long conversations with Lord ...