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

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

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

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

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

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.

By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 had seen Mexico concede land to the US. This concession came with the ...

In The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 Jonathan Healey holds Juntos and ‘jittery times’ responsible for England’s slide towards civil war. Nobody expects civil war. Looking back, as Jonathan ...

South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the sun’. The kingdom was Spain, but the copywriter failed to mention ...