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

For the Victorians and Edwardians, the late British summer was a time of sun, sand – and sea serpents. F rom the 1860s, late July through to mid-September became known as the ‘silly season’. With ...

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

When Francisco Franco died in November 1975 the enduring image of the country he had ruled for almost four decades was of a ...

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

The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington looks beyond the warming ...

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

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

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

Industrial Birmingham was an important stop on the grand tours of various Muslim rulers, all eager to learn from the city of a thousand trades.

For non-conformists, the deadline would be remembered as ‘Black Bartholomew’s Day’ or the ‘Great Ejection’. But how great an ejection was it? Edmund Calamy, whose father and grandfather both lost ...

On July 15th, 1815, after being defeated at Waterloo and deposed in Paris, the former Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte presented himself to Captain Frederick Maitland, commander of HMS Bellerophon, which ...