In conclusion, Hölscher suggests that the images of the symposium and the diver in the Paestum tomb provide a powerful ...

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

O n the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a ...

On 9 October 1676 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek – the ‘Father of Microbiology’ – presented his findings to the Royal Society.

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

After the Flood, Noah’s sons were repurposed to support a new worldview justifying racial hierarchy and slavery.

The Indefatigable Asa Briggs: A Biography by Adam Sisman is a detailed portrait of that voluminous chronicler of Victorian ...

The lifelong rivalry of two early modern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

The Anglican vicar, astronomer, and orientalist George Costard wrote an impassioned letter to his fellow Oxford clergyman, Thomas Shaw, on 2 March 1747. In it, he furiously denounced the claim that ...

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 ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and Christianity itself.