Though he didn't invent it, the guillotine was named for a French doctor, who died on 26 March 1814. The man who gave his name to Madame la Guillotine or The Widow (La Veuve) was born at Saintes in ...

I n February 1963 the Iranian essayist Jalal Al-e Ahmad visited Israel and came away convinced that the Jewish state ...

On 31 May 1786 Paris relished the humiliation of Marie Antoinette as the Affaire du collier de la reine concluded in court.

For H.P. Lovecraft there was nothing as familiar – or as frightening – as the past. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, ...

In Churchill and the Crown, Ted Powell explores the interwoven lives of Britain’s Marlborough man and the monarchs he served. There have been many notable courtier-politicians in British history. From ...

Ever since his own time it has been agreed that Richard Cromwell was not the man his father was, which may have been no bad thing. Born in 1626, he remained in the background as the Civil War ended, ...

Young could be forgiven for this comment, for he was unaware that for decades the ministerial offices, salons, academies, and ...

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The British countryside of the 1930s was a happy hunting ground for the British Union of Fascists, where recruits sometimes came with titles and estates.

S uch is the fame of Pericles that, when we talk about the Hellenic world, we sometimes talk about ‘Periclean Athens’, ...

This third element (the House of Commons) only came to be based on universal manhood suffrage in 1918, and universal adult ...

‘Which moment would I most like to go back to? The Resurrection. Whatever happened, there has been no more consequential ...