I ronically, when we speak about inquisitions, people have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition. But inquisitions into the ...

How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

Hertha Ayrton’s experiment in a bathtub may have saved lives in the trenches, but it caused ripples among the ranks of the ...

‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column by Mary Beth ...

The tour that the Quapaws gave French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette in 1673. English, Spanish, French, and a ...

The new threepenny weekly was launched as Punch or The London Charivari, implying a mixture of cheerful humour and biting satire. Punch was from Punch and Judy, while the word charivari meant a ...

Ruth Ellis was a London bar hostess and call girl, from Rhyl in North Wales originally, who took up with an ex-public schoolboy called David Blakely, a motor-racing enthusiast and, like her, a heavy ...

Henry II was fatally injured by the Count of Montgomery during a jousting tournament. He died on July 10th, 1559.

Absinthe. Libidinal sex. Symbolist poetry. It was too much for Paul Verlaine. In 1871 he was 27, married and about to become a father. He had, however, stopped writing poetry. Then he met 17-year-old ...

How should we see the natural world? For Descartes it was a mechanism, but a wondrous one.

The 1950s is remembered as an era of ideal homes and perfect housewives. Yet this decade marked the beginning of a momentous social change: the rise of the working wife and mother. Poor women had ...