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 ...

H.P. Lovecraft asked us to imagine a much deeper past than modern comforts and science allow us to perceive — and the monsters that might dwell there. ‘Churchill and the Crown’ by Ted Powell review In ...

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

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 ...

The departure of over ten thousand crusaders from the port of Dartmouth in May 1147 in a fleet of over 150 ships marked a second-stage initiative to continue the momentum and success of the First ...

In Renaissance Italy, prediction markets were numerous and diverse, risky but potentially lucrative. Italians could bet on ...

The siege of Mafeking lasted seven months from October 1899, when the little town was surrounded by a Boer force of some 5,000 men under a redoubtable leader, Piet Cronje. The British garrison ...

According to Sir Walter Scott, Jonathan Swift’s friends were able to pinpoint the source of this inspiration: ‘the habitual ...