On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of ...

In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...

In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...

In conclusion, Hölscher suggests that the images of the symposium and the diver in the Paestum tomb provide a powerful ...

O n the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a ...

On 9 October 1676 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek – the ‘Father of Microbiology’ – presented his findings to the Royal Society.

On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its own historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.

‘The medieval persists’: stained glass depicting two minstrels c.1885, attributed to James Egan, a former employee of William Morris. Art Institute of Chicago.

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...

Has more silly nonsense been written about any institution in history than the Order of Knights Templar? The community of Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon was founded after ...

The Anglican vicar, astronomer, and orientalist George Costard wrote an impassioned letter to his fellow Oxford clergyman, Thomas Shaw, on 2 March 1747. In it, he furiously denounced the claim that ...

In 1506 a Portuguese sea-captain called Tristao da Cunha came across a group of six little islands far out in the Atlantic between South Africa and South America. The largest of them, which he named ...