When an unmarried servant returned home pregnant in the 17th century, women in her community helped her ‘part with child’ – ...
In late 1956 hundreds of thousands of Hungarians joined an uprising against the country’s Moscow-oriented government. 70 ...
For much of its modern history state lotteries were seen as antithetical to Britain’s moral values. The introduction of the ...
As the Thirty Years War ravaged the Continent, news reached England of strange phenomena. What did it portend?
Master of Rome by David Potter, The Roman World War by Giusto Traina, and Livia by Caitlin C. Gillespie – tell us about ...
The discovery of the molecular structure of benzene by Kathleen Lonsdale helped to reveal the secrets of carbon-based life, ...
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d’État by Ruth First is a timely reissue from the first wave of Africa’s ‘coup ...
O n 8 January 1981 Isabel Allende was living in Venezuela when she learned that her grandfather was dying. A cousin of ...
On 26 October 1881, three men were shot dead in Tombstone, Arizona. A survivor, Wyatt Earp, turned it into a legend. Gunfights were news in Tombstone, Arizona but not headline news. One local paper, ...
On 25 October 1786 the physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg happened upon the aspect ratio for the perfect piece of paper.
The Battle of Fitjar, fought in southern Norway in 961, was a struggle between King Hákon ‘the Good’, once the foster-son of King Æthelstan of England, and his nephews, the sons of Erik ‘Bloodaxe’.
Incognito investigative journalism was a Victorian invention. What explained its overnight success?
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