In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary ...

‘The risks are acute when we turn to traditional periodisations’ Levi Roach is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter There can be no doubt that monarchs bulk inordinately large in ...

‘W ar Spirit High in Italian Reservists’ read a headline in the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York on 25 May 1915. Two days later the Vancouver Daily World proclaimed: ‘Local Italians Keen ...

Robert Hole shows how important historical context is for an understanding of the most significant document in American history. Robert Hole examines the often misunderstood careers of Lorenzo the ...

How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...

On 5 July 1852 the curtain came down on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa.

The final, tense meeting between the sage and the tyrant was steeped in animosity, to judge by the account in Plato’s Third ...

On 5 July 1852 the curtain came down on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa. Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the ...

Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David ...

I n 1905 the prison population of England and Wales was 21,525 and rising. In the decade that followed, that number nearly ...

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.

In 1453 the Orthodox city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the forces of Mehmed II. Christians fled and the city began its transformation into the seat of the Ottoman ...