According to Sir Walter Scott, Jonathan Swift’s friends were able to pinpoint the source of this inspiration: ‘the habitual ...

Around 1900 Juho Arhippainen, a Russian peddler who traded seasonally in the Grand Duchy of Finland, was forced to flee back ...

Byron was not alone among the poets of his day in his love of the Prize Ring: John Keats, John Clare, John Hamilton Reynolds ...

Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline That Listened by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith reveals unsung – but not unheard – ...

It was Eichmann who inspired Hannah Arendt's phrase ‘the banality of evil’. A career civil servant in Nazi Germany, he was put in charge of administering the ‘Final Solution’ and organised the seizure ...

Like many of the famous cities of the Asian seaboard, Penang was a creation of British trading enterprise. Until Francis Light landed there in 1786 to establish the rule of the East India Company, it ...

There was a grand uproar in the quadrangle, the men threw out to the boys old hats (which were immediately used as footballs) ...

In Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela, Magdalena S. Sánchez discovers a 16th-century marriage documented ...

Contemporary newspapers painted Masall as one of the most successful snake hunters in the United States of America. She had ...

Seabirds are mentioned in European sources throughout the 16th century, but birds like the fura buchos are often overlooked ...

On 25 November 1120 King Henry I of England, son of William the Conqueror, was in high spirits. He had recently concluded a peace treaty with France and made a marriage alliance for his only ...

In the autumn of 1467 the governor of Iceland, Björn Þorleifsson, was troubled. He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not ...