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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

‘The medieval persists’: stained glass depicting two minstrels c.1885, attributed to James Egan, a former employee of William Morris. Art Institute of Chicago.

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 ...

Has more silly nonsense been written about any institution in history than the Order of Knights Templar? The community of Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon was founded after ...

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 ...