On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of ...

On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its own historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.

In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...

More than science waiting to be understood, The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing by Ayoush Lazikani illuminates the enchanted orb of poets. Historical commentary on the moon’s place ...

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

Doctor Peter Chamberlen was summoned to a meeting with the College of Physicians on 28 August 1634 to explain a proposal he had lately made to the king for a new organisation of midwives – a document ...

O n the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a ...

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 ...

In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...

Youth, Eros and the Sea in Ancient Greece by Tonio Hölscher – and translated by Robert Savage – searches beneath the surface ...

On 9 October 1676 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek – the ‘Father of Microbiology’ – presented his findings to the Royal Society.

After the Flood, Noah’s sons were repurposed to support a new worldview justifying racial hierarchy and slavery.