How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David ...

In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary ...

Early 17th-century machines were intricate, impressive, responsive, and lively in equal measure. Even so, for Descartes just ...

Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...

How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident.

Clifford got within ten yards of him, but it was too late. A lifeboat fished them both out of the water. The man, floating ...

‘The risks are acute when we turn to traditional periodisations’ Levi Roach is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter There can be no doubt that monarchs bulk inordinately large in ...

A 1907 painting by Boris Kustodiev depicting the muzhiks listening to the proclamation of the Emancipation Manifesto in 1861 In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to ...

‘W ar Spirit High in Italian Reservists’ read a headline in the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York on 25 May 1915. Two days later the Vancouver Daily World proclaimed: ‘Local Italians Keen ...

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.

The first Aliyah, early Jewish immigrants to Ottoman Palestine, 1882-1903. World History Archive / Alamy Stock Photo. Living and working in what is now Lithuania in the second half of the 19th century ...