As Malaya headed towards independence, the spectre of identity politics loomed. What place for cosmopolitan Penang and its ...

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

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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

An answer is suggested by a reminiscence of Malcolm covering a Chemistry lesson, a subject about which he took some pride in parading his almost total ignorance. ‘Like the ancients’, he began, ‘I ...

A Concise History breaks off these later accretions and unearths their long history. Runes’ primary function as an alphabetic writing system is underlined throughout, as part of the ‘uphill battle’ ...

In 1563 Elizabeth Flynte, a servant from Haselor, Warwickshire, described the extra-marital activities of her mistress to the church court of the Lichfield diocese: He come in here this night, ...

When was Christ born? Early opinion differed. Clement of Alexandria, at the turn of the third century, thought it was 20 May. The first recorded celebration of 25 December doesn’t arrive until 336 in ...