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

A powerful force of 150,000 Vietnamese troops and 15,000 Cambodian exiles, with tanks and air support, crossed the border into Cambodia on Christmas Day in 1978, swept all opposition aside and took ...

Two recent books, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein and Revolutions: A ...

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

How to read more? We might take instruction from a more leisurely age.

The emirate of Granada – Islam’s last polity in Spain – was surrendered to the Catholic monarchs on 2 January 1492.

The body belonged to Charles d’Espagne, constable of France and its most powerful figure after the king, Jean II. The man ...

The organisers of the Indian displays at London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 had a problem: they urgently required a taxidermy elephant. They needed the elephant as a frame on which to display a lavish ...

Suffragette sets out to tell the story of the ‘footsoldiers’ of the women’s suffrage movement. Director Sarah Gavon and writer Abi Morgan have therefore made the refreshing decision to avoid a more ...

Vietnam has been called ‘the First Television War’. But, as Billboard magazine reported on 4 June 1966, ‘few conflicts have evoked such a spate of musical production’. As the magazine revealed, well ...

Cold War Yugoslavia, Oswald of Northumbria, the wreck of the Spanish treasure ship San José, educating the Maharaja of Travancore, understanding the Aurora Borealis, and more. Plus: reviews, opinion, ...

‘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.