The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...

The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at ...

As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.

The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.

A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest ...

American air raids on Japan’s capital burned the city in March 1945, killing 80,000 people in one night alone. ‘Had to be ...

The persecution began on 23 February 303. It was the feast of Terminus, the god of boundaries – chosen, Lactantius says, ‘so ...

The Campo de’ Fiori, near the spot where Julius Caesar was murdered, is Rome’s marketplace and also the place where heretics were executed. It was there that the faggots were piled high for the ...

Bestiaries – medieval books containing descriptions of real-life and imaginary animals, accompanied by moralising tales – ...

Tool of social control or check on tyranny? The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki crafts a history for the ...