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 – ...

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 ...

Whig is beautiful? Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism by Adrian Wooldridge looks for signs of life ...

The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without foundation. For as one writer remarked a generation after 1066, ‘French customs ...

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity by Frank Dikötter is a balanced account of the violent years between Kuomintang and communist rule. Across his works, Dikötter has ...