The colony of New South Wales did not have its own parliament until 1856, but it did have a tradition of public dinners and ...

Henry VIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?

Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed a great success, but it had unexpected consequences. P rewar ...

Justine Firnhaber-Baker is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. Her latest book is House of Lilies: The ...

As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by. A t its height ...

Elizabeth Tudor, one of the greatest and most fascinating of English monarchs, was the daughter of Henry VIII and admiring contemporaries thought her a chip off the old block. Her mother was Anne ...

The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the worlds at the ...

Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the 16th century, but its attitude to its own poor ...

The Maginot Line: A New History by Kevin Passmore confronts the myths surrounding the fall of France in 1940.

The 57 delegates to the Second Congress of the minuscule, quarrelsome and apparently ineffectual Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party assembled in a flea-ridden flour warehouse in Brussels on July ...

New Haven, Connecticut, 4 July 1798. The President of Yale, Timothy Dwight, announces the name of an apocalyptic and conspiratorial threat facing America. Referencing the Book of Revelation, he ...

The organisers of the Indian displays at London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 had a problem: they urgently required a taxidermy elephant. They needed the elephant as a frame on which to display a lavish ...