The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity ...

Uzbekistan was a product of Islamic modernism and Soviet might. Free from the latter, the nation now seeks to foreground the ...

Like Lalande, many writers argued by analogy, a rhetorical technique that then punched considerable weight. Fuelled by ...

Who should claim Scotland’s royal jewels? After the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots, the answer was not clear cut.

What happened to the French airmen in the Second World War who bombed France to help liberate it? D uring the Second World ...

In 1874 a choir of African American singers concluded a successful tour of Britain, singing songs that confronted American ...

To the Ottomans, who took it in the 15th century, it was ‘infidel Smyrna’, the last Christian majority city in Asia. There ...

In Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen, Mary Hollingsworth helps the pragmatic queen escape her ...

The French Resistance sought liberation above all else. But what should the postwar nation look like? The question was as old ...

Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in the Jewish quarter of Frankfurt am Main in Germany in the 1740s. His ancestors had been in the city for at least two centuries and their surname came from the ...

Tyrant and usurper: the last wills of Richard II and Henry IV give rare insight into the medieval monarchs who wore the crown ...

In its first two centuries of existence Christianity witnessed the persecution of many of its members by officials of the Roman Empire; the causes of these persecutions have been and continue to be ...