As well as Latin Christian victories, it described moments of suffering and struggle – and two occasions in which crusaders ...

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The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Anna Whitelock offers a panoramic view of Jacobean foreign policy ...

In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

‘As soon as anything is missing, suspected to be stolen’, the British Journal reported wearily in February 1725, ‘the first course we steer is directly to the office of Mr Jonathan Wild.’ That office ...

It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding the bat with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Since the publication of Stoker’s novel, the connection has ...

In the early months of 1660 the taciturn West Country soldier George Monck held the fate of the British Isles in his hands. Oliver Cromwell was dead and the British republic had descended into chaos.

When it comes to the end of the Roman Empire three things are certain: death, taxes, and Goths. Were reports of its demise exaggerated? ‘The Sun Rising’ by Anna Whitelock review The Sun Rising: James ...

Alexis de Tocqueville saw, in winter 1831, the Choctaw crossing the Mississippi at Memphis. Among them were the wounded and the sick, newborn babies, elderly people at the point of death. Snow had ...

Father of present-day Europe, Charles, King of the Franks, was one of the most extraordinary of all rulers. Discover the man and the life, 12 centuries after his reign.

The name Philip was Greek and uncommon in the Western Europe of the 11th century. Meaning ‘lover of horses’ (philippos), it was probably bestowed on the future Capetian monarch by his mother, Anne, a ...