Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy by Carol Chillington Rutter is a case study of the archetypal early modern ...

Faisal Devji takes the last approach, focusing on what he sees as a global transformation in the way the term Islam was used ...

Cecil’s clause did not detail any line of succession, but was instead an interregnum clause. Highly detailed, it outlined a ...

E dith-Matilda or Matilda II of England is best remembered as ‘Good Queen Maud’, the wife of Henry I and patron of the 12th ...

The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History by Caroline Sharples explores the public fascination with the ...

If the present, with its conflicts and uncertainties, is impossible to know, ask Italo Calvino, how can we hope to understand ...

Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989 by Andrea Horbinski reveals the colourful ...

The death-knell of the Chartist movement in Britain sounded on what was meant to be its day of triumph. In a year when thrones tottered and regimes quailed as revolutions broke out all over Europe, ...

In July 1099 Jerusalem fell to the armies of the First Crusade. Amid scenes of slaughter and triumph, Godfrey of Bouillon, duke of Lower Lorraine, and his fellow crusaders claimed the Holy City.

Anne Frank is chiefly known for her Diary, with approximately eighteen million copies sold, in fifty-two editions, in over fifty languages (including Japanese, Ladino, and Serbo-Croat). A play and a ...

Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than debunk it. The Second World War disrupted narratives of mankind’s ‘progress’, ...

‘Though separated by ten thousand leagues of clouds and waves, our territories are as it were close to each other.’ These were the words with which the retired but de facto ruler of Japan, Tokugawa ...