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

In Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, Matthias Egeler follows the huldufólk from the wild places of ...

The annexation of Cyprus was more than another milestone in Roman expansion – it was a showcase of political theatre. In the ...

The fortunes of modern Bristol were founded on slavery. During the 18th century the city boomed as a result of its participation in the export of Africans to North America. Regrettably there is no ...

Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding goes where few historians dare: south of ...

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

What language did the Romans speak? Latin was used throughout the Roman Empire, but it shared space with a host of other languages and dialects... A stela with Oscan inscription from Pompeii, first ...

At the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West seemed set on a path towards cooperation. Why did it veer into renewed ...

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.

I n the 1820s London was the largest city in the world. With more than a million inhabitants, it lay at the heart of an ...

Just as Rosie the Riveter found work in the factories during the Second World War, Rosie the Reporter was taken on by newsdesks. But in the postwar period many of the gains made by women journalists ...

History is narratives. From chaos comes order. We seek to understand the past by determining and ordering ‘facts’; and from these narratives we hope to explain the decisions and processes which shape ...