They go low, we go lower. The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain by George Owers offers up the origins ...

Chinese astronomers and the European Jesuits who worked alongside them found evidence of China’s antiquity in the heavens.

In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael ...

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman looks beyond the empty tomb to find perhaps ...

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce and Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of ...

In 13th-century England excommunication was akin to spiritual leprosy. How did it work?

Whether as ‘Gloriana’ or ‘Good Queen Bess’ Elizabeth I is one of England’s most iconic monarchs, but did her gender shape her ...

In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British.

The slave trade was an international criminal enterprise. In 1811 an uprising on the slaving ship Amelia off the coast of ...

Alexander Hamilton. The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor; he used original documents to ...

In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could ...

One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by the novelist Winifred Peck (1882-1962). Looking back from the 1950s, Peck describes her education ...