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 ...

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

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

Around 1900 Juho Arhippainen, a Russian peddler who traded seasonally in the Grand Duchy of Finland, was forced to flee back ...

Byron was not alone among the poets of his day in his love of the Prize Ring: John Keats, John Clare, John Hamilton Reynolds ...

Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline That Listened by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith reveals unsung – but not unheard – ...

Contemporary newspapers painted Masall as one of the most successful snake hunters in the United States of America. She had ...

Seabirds are mentioned in European sources throughout the 16th century, but birds like the fura buchos are often overlooked ...

Huguenot Networks begins with Penny Roberts’ discovery of the manuscript record of Tivinat’s interrogation in the ...