Knell continuing his attack as before, so maliciously and furiously, and Towne … to save his life drew his sword of iron ...

On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.

In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...

On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of ...

A t the core of environmental history lies a simple feedback loop: that humanity and the environment are in a perpetual and ...

In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...

The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in the 1950s.

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s by Thant Myint-U captures the optimism and ambition ...

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski is Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at UCL and Principal Historian of the Polish History ...

The kings of medieval France were fascinated by the Mongols, who they saw as great empire builders. Eager to learn more, they ...

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...