British military engagement in northwest Europe did not pause after Waterloo and resume in 1914. The intervening century saw ...

Greene’s attack is significant as it is the earliest surviving reference to Shakespeare as a writer of plays. But, precisely for this reason, it also leaves us with a problem. If Shakespeare was ...

Hertha Ayrton’s experiment in a bathtub may have saved lives in the trenches, but it caused ripples among the ranks of the ...

Hinduism predates colonialism by thousands of years, but in Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu ...

The tour that the Quapaws gave French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette in 1673. English, Spanish, French, and a ...

‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column by Mary Beth ...

I ronically, when we speak about inquisitions, people have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition. But inquisitions into the ...

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated after the February revolution of 1917. He and his immediate family were subsequently sent to Tobolsk in western Siberia, where they were humanely treated, but in ...

The 1950s is remembered as an era of ideal homes and perfect housewives. Yet this decade marked the beginning of a momentous social change: the rise of the working wife and mother. Poor women had ...

By 380, a small cult originating near the periphery of the Roman Empire had grown to become its official religion: Christianity. Things would change – but in what ways?

You could be forgiven for missing the announcement that 2018 is the ‘Year of Skanderbeg’. The Albanian government made the decision late last year, as 2018 marks 550 years since his death, in 1468.