In the early 20th century the prison population in England and Wales was in sharp decline, despite a rise in crime. The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert ...

I n 1905 the prison population of England and Wales was 21,525 and rising. In the decade that followed, that number nearly ...

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.

On 25 June 1922 Black activist Marcus Garvey found common cause with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. I n the 30 ...

Italy’s entry into the Great War in 1915 prompted 300,000 men to return to their homeland to join the fight. Were they ...

T here can be no doubt that monarchs bulk inordinately large in British history. Whether the subject be Georgian architecture, Victorian literature, or Tudor religious culture, we find ourselves ...

How did Western Europe learn of the fall of Constantinople, the loss of Negroponte, and the Ottoman defeat at Lepanto? In the ...

I n the early Middle Ages a new ceremony was invented that would underpin the ideology of European monarchies for a millennium and more: the royal consecration. This ceremony, in which the Church and ...

G reg Grandin has dedicated his career to the study of how United States imperialism shaped Latin America and how its Latin American empire shaped the United States. America, América may be his most ...

I n the summer of 1992 a senior British army officer was given the chance to visit Russia and Kyrgyzstan. His trip would have been unthinkable for most of the century then approaching its end. Now he ...

I n the mid-1950s, as Cairo buzzed with tense negotiations over the fate of the Suez Canal, a different kind of battle smouldered beneath the scorching sun of the Western Desert. In the large prison ...

W ere there strikes in the ancient world? The term, as Sarah Bond explains in this boundary-crossing new book, derives from a notorious act of resistance in April 1768 when British sailors lowered (or ...