The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity ...

In 1874 a choir of African American singers concluded a successful tour of Britain, singing songs that confronted American ...

Like Lalande, many writers argued by analogy, a rhetorical technique that then punched considerable weight. Fuelled by ...

To the Ottomans, who took it in the 15th century, it was ‘infidel Smyrna’, the last Christian majority city in Asia. There ...

In Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen, Mary Hollingsworth helps the pragmatic queen escape her ...

Bard romance? Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh sets the stage for the next wave of accessible queer histories.

Who should claim Scotland’s royal jewels? After the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots, the answer was not clear cut.

What happened to the French airmen in the Second World War who bombed France to help liberate it? D uring the Second World ...

The French Resistance sought liberation above all else. But what should the postwar nation look like? The question was as old ...

Tyrant and usurper: the last wills of Richard II and Henry IV give rare insight into the medieval monarchs who wore the crown ...

The English noble and a major figure during the reign of Henry IV died on October 13th 1415. Henry IV and the Revolt of the Earls, 1400 Alan Rogers tells the story of a plot to capture and kill the ...