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

Though his relics are reviled, his impact is more keenly felt than ever. Can The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes by ...

The wine trade in medieval Tunis was lucrative, but it caused a moral quandary for the ruling Hafsids.

Depending on one’s vantage point, the meaning of the French Revolution varies. The First Republic succumbed to an imperial ...

An early modern ship’s surgeon had to treat not just broken bones but distress and trauma. I n September 1649 ship’s surgeon ...

Age Beauty Farm’ – a combination spa, charm school, weight-loss clinic, and summer camp – was billed as ‘the only place in the world dedicated to making the teen-ager more beautiful’. It attracted ...

José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas, edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muñiz, collects the works of Cuba's ‘Apostle of Independence’.

Renaissance Italy was dominated by rich and powerful families whose reputations have been shaped by the many dark and dastardly deeds they committed. In quattrocento Florence, the Medici bought, ...

Preserved for posterity: John Maynard Keynes portrayed as a young man by Roger Fry. ‘The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead,’ wrote John Maynard Keynes ...

Court-martialled in absentia on 2 August 1940, the Vichy regime confiscated de Gaulle’s property and condemned him to death.

The 1950s is remembered as an era of ideal homes and perfect housewives. Yet this decade marked the beginning of a momentous social change: the rise of the working wife and mother. Poor women had ...

The first picnics were a favourite pastime of the aristocracy, and purely indoor affairs. In the 19th century, the emergent middle classes moved lunch outdoors.