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

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

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

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 ...

Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than debunk it. The Second World War disrupted narratives of mankind’s ‘progress’, ...

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

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