Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?

Toothbrushing has been a regular part of most people’s daily routines since the mid-20th century, but it was only a few decades earlier that the British state first began to impress upon the public ...

In the first of a new series, we ask historians one of the burning questions of the day.

Donald Trump has often been likened to Aaron Burr, described as ‘one of the most unprincipled men in the United States’. His isolationism, however, owes more to Thomas Jefferson.