Depending on one’s vantage point, the meaning of the French Revolution varies. The First Republic succumbed to an imperial ...

Court-martialled in absentia on 2 August 1940, the Vichy regime confiscated de Gaulle’s property and condemned him to death.

An early modern ship’s surgeon had to treat not just broken bones but distress and trauma. I n September 1649 ship’s surgeon ...

The wine trade in medieval Tunis was lucrative, but it caused a moral quandary for the ruling Hafsids.

José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas, edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muñiz, collects the works of Cuba's ‘Apostle of Independence’.

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, prime minister of Prussia for almost thirty years and from 1871 to 1890 the first chancellor of the German Empire, which recognised him as its founder, died ...

British military engagement in northwest Europe did not pause after Waterloo and resume in 1914. The intervening century saw ...

I ronically, when we speak about inquisitions, people have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition. But inquisitions into the ...

‘What’s past is prologue’ Shakespeare wrote – but so little is known of his own. There are plenty of theories, each as implausible as the next.

George Macaulay Trevelyan During the immediate aftermath of the First World War, G.M. Trevelyan was an impressive, though characteristically modest and unassuming, figure in the small Hertfordshire ...