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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the cinema. The woman was seven months pregnant and was walking slowly when a grey Volvo stopped ...

In 1229 the people of Dunstable declared that they would rather go to hell than submit in a dispute over taxes. This was not mere rhetoric: their clash over tolls was with the town’s priory, and they ...