Willis prescribed a vomit and ordered his patient to keep to a ‘strict diet’, forgoing her strange cravings. The definition ...

British servicemen overseas bought sex, sometimes in brothels run by the British army. In the 1970s they began to talk about it.

1960s San Francisco is remembered as the capital of gay liberation, but it also saw the birth of conversion therapy.

On 6 December 343, Saint Nicholas died but his miracles continued. Eventually, the man was replaced by the myth of Santa Claus – if he even existed at all. Saint Nicholas was dead, to begin with. On 6 ...

Aware that palaeontology’s pace quickly rendered old interpretations obsolete, Cope and Marsh made only limited attempts to ...

Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...

On a hill above Ballycrovane harbour stands a tall, thin pinnacle of stone, standing over four metres high and clearly visible from the bay, as one sails from the open Atlantic into the safe haven ...

Tsar Alexander II oversaw a set of reforms which held out the prospect of modernising Russia but whose failure paved the way for revolution. Alexander II’s ‘great reforms’ stand out as among the most ...

The Thirty Years War devastated continental Europe, killing millions and creating as many refugees. How did they experience ...

Timecheck: September 2012. A primary school teacher somewhere in Ireland faces a class of 11-year-olds. The teacher reaches for the textbook Earthlink 5th Class, published by Folens in 2004. On page ...

Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title? W hen Indonesia’s former president Suharto died ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...