At the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West seemed set on a path towards cooperation. Why did it veer into renewed ...

The Thirty Years War devastated continental Europe, killing millions and creating as many refugees. How did they experience ...

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Gun, the Ship and ...

1960s San Francisco is remembered as the capital of gay liberation, but it also saw the birth of conversion therapy.

Aware that palaeontology’s pace quickly rendered old interpretations obsolete, Cope and Marsh made only limited attempts to ...

The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution.

Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title? W hen Indonesia’s former president Suharto died ...

The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c.1031-1083: Embodying Conquest by Laura L. Gathagan traces the material legacy of the ...

In 1787 the Quakers of Portsmouth made their anti-slavery campaign official by forming The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, joining forces with prominent abolitionists such as ...

In February 1945 Winston Churchill had dinner with his secretary John Colville and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris. Colville’s diary records that: ‘The PM said the Hindus were a foul race ... and ...

It was a wretched end to a vivid life. Emma Lyon was born in 1765 in the Wirral area south of Birkenhead. Her father, a blacksmith, died when she was a baby and she was brought up by her mother at ...

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.