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 ...

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 ...

By the early 20th century the indigenous San peoples of South Africa were deemed to be almost extinct. The arguments for their protection drew on colonial methods of wildlife preservation and reduced ...

The ancient world found him to have achieved greatness and thrust it upon his name, but was the destruction of Babylon Cyrus’ divinely ordained destiny?

On 20 September 1592 a strange, yet immensely important, pamphlet was entered in the Stationer’s Register in London. Cobbled together from papers left by the recently deceased playwright Robert Greene ...

In the early 20th century few political issues inspired such passion and vitriol in the United Kingdom as whether to impose tariffs on imported goods. An apparently esoteric issue of high-level fiscal ...

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, ...

Ironically, when we speak about inquisitions, people have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition. But inquisitions into the beliefs and behaviours of the laity started in earnest more than two ...