Queenship was transformed in the early Middle Ages, as power came to be derived not just from marriage, but from God.

It was Pierre Trudeau who famously summed up Canada’s ‘American dilemma’ when speaking to an audience at the National Press ...

In the febrile political climate of early modern Europe, letters – and the information they contained – were dangerous.

Hitler’s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht by Douglas Carl Peifer surfaces the stories of those who sought to sit ...

I n May 1720 an infected ship from the Levant arrived in Marseilles, bringing with it the last major epidemic of bubonic ...

In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain, Sam Wetherell discovers a city of slavery, ships, soccer, and socialism, whose ...

The Earth was created in seven days. On which day were the dinosaurs made? Discoveries in geology and palaeontology forced ...

As Nasser moved to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was forced to choose between faith and ...

When Samuel Pepys’ diary was first published 200 years ago it was an instant hit, but rumours soon spread about what had been cut and why.

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

English women who travelled to the new colony of Jamestown for marriage were neither groomed nor coerced. The same cannot be ...

The results of the 1945 general election exceeded the hopes of the most fervent Labour supporter. Never before had the party achieved an overall majority in the House of Commons, and yet now Labour ...