The legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable ...

Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert looks beyond the cities to the coffee and cotton that fuelled a global market.

Who is the most overderrated person in history? Henry VIII. Nasty piece of work and not as clever as he thought he was.’ ...

Rider Haggard after hours spent digging on Bradenham Heath in Norfolk searching for the gibbet cage in which the body of the ...

Andrew Petersen uncovers the city that was once the Palestinian capital and suggests reasons for its decline in the 11th century. A view of Palestine’s old capital of Ramla by by Dutch cartographer ...

Though remembered as the era of the housewife, momentous change in the status of British women began in the 1950s. The 1950s is remembered as an era of ideal homes and perfect housewives. Yet this ...

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is a myth of enduring love that has inspired artists, writers and composers for centuries. Orpheus and Eurydice, hand in hand, walk away from the fiery underworld and ...

In 1776 the Founding Father John Adams stated that future commemorations of the United States’ independence ‘ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, ...

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest hour. Hugh ‘Stuffy’ Dowding was a man of independent mind. He believed in ...

After he was formally condemned to death in Moscow, the Mexican government offered Trotsky refuge and protection, on December 6th 1936. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 Leon Trotsky organised the ...

On May 31st, 1902, the Peace of Vereeniging was signed, ending the Second Boer War between Britain and the two Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The Second Boer War between ...