The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman looks beyond the empty tomb to find the most ...

In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could the Parsis rely on British support?

In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael ...

In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British. W hen the burger landed ...

This was not mere rhetoric: their clash over tolls was with the town’s priory, and they were excommunicated for their refusal ...

On a November night in 1588 Lawrence Jackson stood waiting at the gates of Fawsley Hall, a manor house on the outskirts of Northampton. Housekeeper at Fawsley for more than a decade, he was used to ...

In 1786 the East India Company placed an order for minting coins with the Birmingham industrialists Matthew Boulton and James Watt. Using the revolutionary steam engines at their Soho Works in the ...

One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by the novelist Winifred Peck (1882-1962). Looking back from the 1950s, Peck describes her education ...

During the immediate aftermath of the First World War, G.M. Trevelyan was an impressive, though characteristically modest and unassuming, figure in the small Hertfordshire community where he had at ...

The most famous image of the Allied Occupation of Japan, which ran from August 1945 to April 1952, shows General Douglas MacArthur looming over a diminutive Emperor Hirohito. The Japanese government ...

For the Victorians and Edwardians, the late British summer was a time of sun, sand – and sea serpents.

For the ancient Greeks, the Peloponnesian War was a conflict involving the entire world. For Thucydides, it was a lesson in the realities of human nature ...