British servicemen overseas bought sex, sometimes in brothels run by the British army. In the 1970s they began to talk about it.

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

In the 1820s London was the largest city in the world. With more than a million inhabitants, it lay at the heart of an expanding empire. It was a city of learning – medical students received training ...

Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...

Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James Romm looks for hope amid the sound and fury surrounding the great orator of ancient Athens.

Willis prescribed a vomit and ordered his patient to keep to a ‘strict diet’, forgoing her strange cravings. The definition ...

At the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West seemed set on a path towards cooperation. Why did it veer into renewed ...

The Thirty Years War devastated continental Europe, killing millions and creating as many refugees. How did they experience ...

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Gun, the Ship and ...

The Act of Uniformity passed by the House of Lords on January 15th, 1549, abolished the Latin mass in England. Prayers in English had already been included in the Latin services, and complete English ...

Why are you a historian of the Middle East? I spent my school years in Beirut and Cairo, a witness to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War, Sadat’s trip to Jerusalem to address the ...

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism ...