Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels finds that the son of God is more than the sum of his ...

Now, in Florence’s hour of peril, it was high time that an equally, if not more, dazzling pair should be cast for the north ...

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley follows in ...

Decades of speculation followed, before, in 1952, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England dated the ...

Reports from the First Crusade brought tales of victorious Christian soldiers eating dead bodies.

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

Mount’s depiction of Thatcher as a ‘hostage’ stands in stark contrast to her usual image as the ‘Iron Lady’. It raises ...

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

In her 2010 memoir Tales from a Mountain City, Quynh Dao – who was 15 at the fall of Saigon in 1975 – describes returning to Dalat, a city in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, at the end of the war. The ...

In the early 1910s a young woman set out every day to walk the river banks near Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Ida Hayward was recording something extraordinary: the arrival in the UK of hundreds ...

The morning after Edward VII was crowned King of Great Britain and Emperor of India in Westminster Abbey, Canon Welldon treated the colonial troops who had attended the ceremony to a valedictory ...

In the autumn of 55 BC Pompey the Great, one of the most powerful generals of the Late Roman Republic, opened his brand new theatre. It was the first theatre ever to be constructed in ancient Rome and ...