Two thousand were slain on the night of 30 March 1282 as the Kingdom of Sicily rose against the hated Charles of Anjou in the ...

Although the reception was not always warm, the English East India Company made several attempts to trade in Japan in the ...

Once we get over that, we can start to write a history of emotions. Equally, of course, we must not imagine that the feelings ...

The high incidence of illegitimate births in rural Scotland was front-page news in the early 1950s. Within two decades, what ...

The words quoted by Mark Carney are those of the Athenians, who explicitly refuse to fabricate any ethical justification for ...

An army of help accompanied wealthy British sightseers on their 18th-century sojourns across the Continent. What was it like to travel as a servant on the Grand Tour?

Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600 by A. Tunç Şen follows the fortunes of the sultan’s ...

Chandos had gained his wealth and title through government service and he invested in many projects and schemes; during the ...

A New History by Roderick Beaton discovers a continent searching for a definition. To call the story of European history ...

I n July 1099 Jerusalem fell to the armies of the First Crusade. Amid scenes of slaughter and triumph, Godfrey of Bouillon, ...

William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament transformed the English language, but the text itself was almost erased.

Paul I of Russia was the son and successor of Catherine the Great, who took the Romanov throne away from her feeble-minded husband, Tsar Peter III, and had him killed in 1762, an event which ever ...