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

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet ...

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash ...

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.

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 ...

‘What historical topic have I changed my mind on? The collapse of the Soviet Union. I used to think it was a relatively peaceful event.’ When I chose to study the Cold War I believed it would continue ...

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 ...

Character, courage and the absence of her family made Mary Kingsley a pioneer explorer of West Africa. Her doctor father, George Kingsley, a younger brother of the much better known novelist and ...

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.

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 ...