For the Victorians and Edwardians, the late British summer was a time of sun, sand – and sea serpents. F rom the 1860s, late ...

Following Japan’s unconditional surrender in September 1945, the US aimed to rebuild the nation in its own image – for better or worse.

In 1786 the East India Company placed an order for minting coins with the Birmingham industrialists Matthew Boulton and James Watt. Using the revolutionary steam engines at their Soho Works in the ...

The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions by Ozan Ozavcı ...

For the ancient Greeks, the Peloponnesian War was a conflict involving the entire world. For Thucydides, it was a lesson in ...

The kidnap of Bennelong, 25 November 1789, William Bradley, 1802. State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain. Growing up ...

‘Who is the most underrated person in history? Bennelong, the Eora leader at the time of first contact between Britons and Indigenous Australians ...

A routine Native American cattle round-up at the US-Mexico border in 1898 became an international incident.

In The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 Jonathan Healey holds Juntos and ‘jittery times’ responsible for England’s ...

In The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642, Jonathan Healey holds Juntos and ‘jittery times’ responsible for England’s slide towards civil war.

How did Spain, Western Europe’s last dictatorship, become one of its most popular tourist destinations?