On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of ...

On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.

A t the core of environmental history lies a simple feedback loop: that humanity and the environment are in a perpetual and ...

In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...

More than science waiting to be understood, The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing by Ayoush Lazikani illuminates the enchanted orb of poets. Historical commentary on the moon’s place ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and Christianity itself.

Most of us know the story of Noah, the Flood, and the Ark. In just four chapters of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, we are told the story of God’s decision to destroy the Earth through a ...

About a mile north of the Ithakan town of Stavros, halfway up a mountain, lies an archaeological site traditionally known as the School of Homer. It is a Mycenaean-era palace complex, with roads, ...

The Indefatigable Asa Briggs: A Biography by Adam Sisman is a detailed portrait of that voluminous chronicler of Victorian things. I knew Asa Briggs well; his life and work had a huge impact upon mine ...

Doctor Peter Chamberlen was summoned to a meeting with the College of Physicians on 28 August 1634 to explain a proposal he had lately made to the king for a new organisation of midwives – a document ...

Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village invites reflection on half a century of change. Fenwomen was also a ...

O n the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a ...