In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems. I n 1563 ...

John Womack’s Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. Just before the Big Bang. I realise there are risks attached. In 1968 Jack Gallagher breezily suggested I work on Latin America. The rest is history.

One of these was Joyce Butler, the backbench Labour and Co-operative MP for Wood Green. Having had a longstanding interest in ...

A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda by Derek R. Peterson looks for the ordinary people who kept the regime’s wheels ...

On 7 December 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, triggering war ...

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for ...

As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire.

F or me, the standout book of 2025 is John Blair’s Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World ...

Christianity at the Crossroads: The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era by David N. Hempton peers ...

In exile, Hortense Mancini captivated 17th-century Europe – and king Charles II – with her beauty and charm. But her path to freedom was mired in scandal.

On Monday 7 November 1825 more than 100 gentlemen assembled at Nash’s Inn in Parramatta in the colony of New South Wales to bid farewell to their departing governor, Sir Thomas Brisbane, at a ...

Mikhail Bulgakov wasn’t all that bothered about the future, even on his deathbed. The last photos of him, taken in his Moscow apartment in February 1940, show no trace of fear. Although his face is ...