‘Comedy in the Country, Tragedy in London’, Thomas Rowlandson, 29 May 1807. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

Ancient Greek reflections on imperial power have unsettling resonance in the geopolitics of Donald Trump.

Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600 by A. Tunç Şen follows the fortunes ...

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

Y ou have to know the angel is there before you can see him. He is hidden around a corner, a carving set high up on an ...

Over the course of the following two days, various local men who spoke with the journalist obligingly pointed out other ...

The Battle of Fitjar, fought in southern Norway in 961, was a struggle between King Hákon ‘the Good’, once the foster-son of King Æthelstan of England, and his nephews, the sons of Erik ‘Bloodaxe’.

For many women in postwar Britain a fur coat – preferably mink – represented the height of luxury, the ultimate object of desire. In popular culture the ambition to own a fur coat became a defining ...

To academic historians the Dark Ages are a thing of the past. And yet English Heritage, in their timeline of the Story of England from the prehistoric to the modern period, shows that, after the ...

‘We have not kept our women individually under control, we now dread them collectively’, said Cato the Elder, as Rome’s women took to the streets to protest the unfair lex Oppia.

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term were nothing if not controversial. This was especially the case in the United States’ northern neighbour where his talk of Canada becoming the ‘51st ...

I n July 1099 Jerusalem fell to the armies of the First Crusade. Amid scenes of slaughter and triumph, Godfrey of Bouillon, duke of Lower Lorraine, and his fellow crusaders claime ...