Chandos had gained his wealth and title through government service and he invested in many projects and schemes; during the ...

‘Comedy in the Country, Tragedy in London’, Thomas Rowlandson, 29 May 1807. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

Over the course of the following two days, various local men who spoke with the journalist obligingly pointed out other ...

Ancient Greek reflections on imperial power have unsettling resonance in the geopolitics of Donald Trump.

Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600 by A. Tunç Şen follows the fortunes ...

William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament transformed the English language, but the text itself was almost erased.

An army of help accompanied wealthy British sightseers on their 18th-century sojourns across the Continent. What was it like to travel as a servant on the Grand Tour?

St Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture, but in the US its parades have always been political.

Y ou have to know the angel is there before you can see him. He is hidden around a corner, a carving set high up on an ...

T he Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that, in 883, King Alfred sent an embassy to India: [That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St ...

Now famin beginneinge to Looke gastely and pale in every face, thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves ...

In April 1941, as it moved closer to direct involvement in the Second World War, the United States began expanding its military presence in Greenland. It did so out of strategic necessity, rather than ...