[That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St Thomas and St Bartholomew – the alms which King Alfred had vowed to send there when they besieged the raiding ...

During the Second World War, Berlin scientists discovered nuclear fission. Only one of them got the credit. Why was Lise ...

The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without ...

Strikingly Similar: Plagiarism and Appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbots by Roger Kreuz finds that copyright isn’t always a ...

Mexico’s disgraced saviour General Antonio López de Santa Anna completed his comeback on 9 March 1839 as the Pastry War came ...

The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald by Walter Reid finds the romance behind Labour’s great betrayer.

On Lady Day, 25 March, some 800 villagers were due to take part in the centuries-old annual custom of the Tichborne Dole, in ...

Strategically important during the Second World War, US soldiers could not wait to leave Greenland. I n April 1941, as it ...

As Malaya headed towards independence, the spectre of identity politics loomed. What place for cosmopolitan Penang and its diverse population?

Edward Lee was born in Kent in 1482 and lived a rather unremarkable life as a priest until the age of 35. In 1517, however, he made the decision to visit the small university town of Louvain, a few ...

One of the longest and happiest, though least fortunate, of British royal marriages was solemnized in 1761. It had been preceded by a lengthy search which, writes Romney Sedgwick, the King himself ...