S uch is the fame of Pericles that, when we talk about the Hellenic world, we sometimes talk about ‘Periclean Athens’, ...

Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline That Listened by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith reveals unsung – but not unheard – ...

‘Which moment would I most like to go back to? The Resurrection. Whatever happened, there has been no more consequential ...

In Renaissance Italy, prediction markets were numerous and diverse, risky but potentially lucrative. Italians could bet on ...

According to Sir Walter Scott, Jonathan Swift’s friends were able to pinpoint the source of this inspiration: ‘the habitual ...

Byron was not alone among the poets of his day in his love of the Prize Ring: John Keats, John Clare, John Hamilton Reynolds ...

Around 1900 Juho Arhippainen, a Russian peddler who traded seasonally in the Grand Duchy of Finland, was forced to flee back ...

Wendy Moore draws us into the illustrious world of Professor John Elliotson, while exposing the challenges between new and traditional medicine and the ensuing bitter competition between Victorian ...

The siege of Mafeking lasted seven months from October 1899, when the little town was surrounded by a Boer force of some 5,000 men under a redoubtable leader, Piet Cronje. The British garrison ...

Like many of the famous cities of the Asian seaboard, Penang was a creation of British trading enterprise. Until Francis Light landed there in 1786 to establish the rule of the East India Company, it ...

Mao Zedong’s brutal campaign to purify Communist China, which began in the early 1960s, resulted in a decade of chaos that has left an indelible stain on the nation’s politics.

It was Eichmann who inspired Hannah Arendt's phrase ‘the banality of evil’. A career civil servant in Nazi Germany, he was put in charge of administering the ‘Final Solution’ and organised the seizure ...