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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

‘What historical topic have I changed my mind on? The collapse of the Soviet Union. I used to think it was a relatively peaceful event.’ When I chose to study the Cold War I believed it would continue ...