Early Stuart England saw the emergence of mass petitioning. These expressions of collective grievance would advance popular ...
In 1943 letters reporting starvation and death in Bengal began to reach Indian soldiers serving the British overseas. Despite ...
The Victorian reading public had access to a vast array of classical literature from Asia in multiple translations by experts ...
A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular by Jonathan Sheehan places bloodletting at the heart of Western thought ...
From the printing press to the internet, the spread of information has changed the world. How do we recognise an age defined ...
The final fraudulent Cottingley fairies photograph was taken on 21 August 1920 by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.
On 4 August 1626 three ships dropped anchor in the road off the leeward coast of St Christopher (St Kitts) in the Caribbean. A hundred English settlers rowed ashore, come to make their fortunes in ...
The abolition of the death penalty is often seen as a symbol of the permissive 1960s. The end of capital punishment in Britain was instead the result of a long campaign by abolitionists. At 8am on 13 ...
A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. In 1599 the poet Edmund Spenser died.
In The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi regime’s self-regard. When in April 2026 Donald Trump threatened the ...
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, prime minister of Prussia for almost thirty years and from 1871 to 1890 the first chancellor of the German Empire, which recognised him as its founder, died ...
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