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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 17 June 1940, when Marshal Pétain surrendered France to the Nazis, 49-year-old General Charles de Gaulle was in London. The next day he made a broadcast on the BBC: ‘Whatever happens, the flame of ...

When it opened in the Malibu mountains in 1962, the ‘Teen-Age Beauty Farm’ – a combination spa, charm school, weight-loss clinic, and summer camp – was billed as ‘the only place in the world dedicated ...

In the summer of 1858 the French emperor Louis Napoleon III decided the time was right to inaugurate the massive artificial harbour at Cherbourg on the Normandy peninsula, by then largely complete, ...