A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das and A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England ...

History of a Tangled Relationship by Stefan Creuzberger discovers the dynamic that defines Europe. On 27 February 2022, three days into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

The shocking murder of its royal family in June 2001 changed the course of Nepal’s history. On the massacre’s 25th ...

In the 1960s Iran and Israel were on friendly terms. One Iranian writer, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, saw the Jewish state as a model ...

On 31 May 1786 Paris relished the humiliation of Marie Antoinette as the Affaire du collier de la reine concluded in court.

For H.P. Lovecraft there was nothing as familiar – or as frightening – as the past. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, ...

Young could be forgiven for this comment, for he was unaware that for decades the ministerial offices, salons, academies, and ...

In Churchill and the Crown, Ted Powell explores the interwoven lives of Britain’s Marlborough man and the monarchs he served. There have been many notable courtier-politicians in British history. From ...

The two Kennedy brothers were assassinated within five years of each other. Robert Francis Kennedy was forty-two when he was shot down in Los Angeles. The seventh child of his family and the ...

Tim Harris explores the political spin, intolerance and repression that underlay Charles II’s relaxed image, and which led him into a deep crisis in 1678-81 yet also enabled him to survive it. Most ...

According to legend while the Cunard-White Star Line’s new Hull Number 534 was under construction at the John Brown and Company’s shipworks on the Clyde no women were allowed anywhere near it in case ...