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

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

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

Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than ...

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

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

Between 1714 and 1737, Robin Hood’s reputation took a beating. In criminal biography, the most popular genre of literature, Robin was portrayed as a cold-hearted killer. It is best to briefly digress, ...

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

Late medieval Florence was riven by factional disputes based on support for, or opposition to, papal power. Dante Alighieri, briefly one of the city’s six governing officials, was of the latter party.

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

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 ...

At the beginning of the ninth century, Charlemagne—already the master of Western Europe—was crowned by a calculating Pope as the supreme sovereign of the Christian world. Peter Munz asks what the real ...