In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary ...

The final, tense meeting between the sage and the tyrant was steeped in animosity, to judge by the account in Plato’s Third ...

On 5 July 1852 the curtain came down on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa.

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.

I n 1905 the prison population of England and Wales was 21,525 and rising. In the decade that followed, that number nearly ...

How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...

Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David ...

‘The risks are acute when we turn to traditional periodisations’ Levi Roach is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter There can be no doubt that monarchs bulk inordinately large in ...

In the pleasant Evenlode Valley, where Oxfordshire borders on Gloucestershire, was born, in 1732, the man who was destined to play the part of Augustus to Clive’s Caesar in the British empire of India ...

Early in 1816, Lady Charlotte Campbell paid a social call on a duchess in Rome, and collected “a good deal of English news.” The news, of course, was gossip, and the gossip, naturally, was gossip ...

In 1968, Fatah, the Palestinian political party, published its first series of protest posters. Clenched fists, raised arms, ammunition belts, bayonets, rifles – these posters were statements of ...

In the 30 years to 1918 some 2,552 Black people were murdered by lynch mobs in the United States. Most of these killings took place in the South, home of the Invisible Empire, otherwise known as the ...