He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not only ...

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...

In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...

I n the autumn of 1974 Barrie Quartermain, a Rolls Royce driving, six-foot five private investigator who had recently been on ...

On 25 May 1926 a party of Moroccans arrived at the frontline headquarters of the French army in northern Morocco. They had ...

If all the world’s a stage, argues Indira Ghose in A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England, ...

A fter months of diplomatic wrangling, national security reviews, and political infighting, on 20 January 2026 the UK ...

Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy by Carol Chillington Rutter is a case study of the archetypal early modern ...

Cecil’s clause did not detail any line of succession, but was instead an interregnum clause. Highly detailed, it outlined a ...

Why are you a historian of the pre-modern Balkans and Turkey? I was born in Bulgaria, but as an undergraduate in the UK I ...

Mikhail Bulgakov wasn’t all that bothered about the future, even on his deathbed. The last photos of him, taken in his Moscow apartment in February 1940, show no trace of fear. Although his face is ...

On 21 March 1776 the popular politician John Wilkes (1725-97) rose in a packed House of Commons to speak in favour of parliamentary reform. The franchise, he argued, was hopelessly out of date, with ...