In medieval Europe beavers were hunted extensively, which led, by the 12th and 13th centuries, to their extinction in England and Wales, and in Denmark by the tenth century. The animals were killed ...

Are beavers beasts or fish? For medieval philosophers, this was an important question with implications for the dining table.

Tool of social control or check on tyranny? The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki crafts a history for the ...

The body of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, the most famous name in Soviet Russian cinema, was found on the floor of his Moscow flat on the morning of February 11th, 1948. He had died of a severe ...

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing brings folklore’s most famous double act out of the shadowy realm of legend ...

In 1920 the English writer Jerome K. Jerome set out the arguments in favour of Irish home rule.

When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, its centrally planned economy went down with it. But the end was also a beginning: from a business point of view the birth of the Russian Federation meant ...

Russia’s entry into the global economy was met with glee by international firms in the early 1990s. The exodus has been just as sudden.

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945 by N.A.M. Rodger looks above decks for the story of the modern Royal Navy.

The rapid surrender of Japan in 1945 certainly suggested that the United States possessed the most decisive of weapons. Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less ...