Willis prescribed a vomit and ordered his patient to keep to a ‘strict diet’, forgoing her strange cravings. The definition ...

British servicemen overseas bought sex, sometimes in brothels run by the British army. In the 1970s they began to talk about it.

Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...

The Thirty Years War devastated continental Europe, killing millions and creating as many refugees. How did they experience ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

At the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West seemed set on a path towards cooperation. Why did it veer into renewed ...

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Gun, the Ship and ...

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism ...

Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James Romm looks for hope amid the sound and fury surrounding the great orator of ancient Athens.

In the 1820s London was the largest city in the world. With more than a million inhabitants, it lay at the heart of an expanding empire. It was a city of learning – medical students received training ...

On 6 December 343, Saint Nicholas died but his miracles continued. Eventually, the man was replaced by the myth of Santa Claus – if he even existed at all. Saint Nicholas was dead, to begin with. On 6 ...

In 1787 the Quakers of Portsmouth made their anti-slavery campaign official by forming The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, joining forces with prominent abolitionists such as ...