During the Crimean War soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

On 13 February 1692 the Macdonalds of Glencoe were put to the sword by troops loyal to William III. Nobody was held to ...

N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As ...

Rather than a catalogue of a fanciful past, Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present by Owen Davies and Ceri ...

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London.

In the fight against rising river pollution by big corporations, legal cases have had to get creative. O n 8 October 2025 nearly 4,000 people joined a claim submitted to the High Court. Described in ...

Joan of Arc was put on trial twice, once before and once after her death. The records made at these trials are often used as evidence of Joan’s own words – but whose voice was really recorded?

Mary Stocks, scholar, political activist, writer and journalist, published a play in 1933, provocatively titled Hail Nero! A Reinterpretation of History in Three Acts. It presents the notorious ...

Henry VII’s queen lies buried beside him in Westminster Abbey in a magnificent marble tomb provided by their son, Henry VIII. The face of her effigy may have been based on her death mask, taken when ...

British servicemen overseas bought sex, sometimes in brothels run by the British army. In the 1970s they began to talk about it. Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that ...

Under their inspiring Scottish manager Matt Busby after the War, Manchester United became one of the most brilliant and exciting football teams in England. They won the FA Cup in 1948 and in 1957 the ...

Compassion from the Kremlin often proved as short-lived as its critics. In Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, ...