How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...

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

There can be no doubt that monarchs bulk inordinately large in British history. Whether the subject be Georgian architecture, Victorian literature, or Tudor religious culture, we find ourselves ...

A huge bestseller and undisputed guide to the Nazi worldview, did Germans actually read Mein Kampf?

By the 14th century Christianity had swept many of Europe’s indigenous religions aside, but not all. At the continent’s peripheries paganism survived and, in some cases, thrived.

Marx is important to the historian in three different aspects – as an historian himself, as a philosopher of history, and as an historical figure. Here I propose to confine myself largely to the ...

‘W ar Spirit High in Italian Reservists’ read a headline in the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York on 25 May 1915. Two days later the Vancouver Daily World proclaimed: ‘Local Italians Keen ...

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

Robert Hole shows how important historical context is for an understanding of the most significant document in American history.

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

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