E dith-Matilda or Matilda II of England is best remembered as ‘Good Queen Maud’, the wife of Henry I and patron of the 12th ...

Death came with a test: could you pronounce the Sicilian word for chickpea, ciciri? By the morning 2,000 had been slain and ...

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

The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History by Caroline Sharples explores the public fascination with the ...

Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989 by Andrea Horbinski reveals the colourful ...

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

The most engaging story about the Spanish adventurer who discovered Florida for Europeans is that he went there in search of the fabled fountain of youth, which restored vigour and sexual energy to ...

The most famous act of insubordination in the annals of the Royal Navy occurred when Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, second-in-command of the British fleet at Copenhagen in the 74-gun battleship Elephant, ...

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 ...

The emblem of the Knights Templar, from the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris, 13th century. British Library Royal MS 14 C VII, fol 42v. Wiki Commons. Less than 25 years after the fall of Acre in May ...

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

Guy Fawkes’ Night, the ‘Fifth of November’, has been popular and long-lived for two different reasons. The first is the spectacular nature of the event that it commemorated. Had the Gunpowder Plot ...