The masculinity that Gerald represented, and that Peter was suggesting, was as far removed as possible from the secular ...

A few weeks later, the NVA evicted Dao’s family. Escaping Vietnam by boat in 1979, Dao fled to a refugee camp in Malaysia, ...

A s opening lines for a history go, this is an excellent one. Its author was the teenage Jane Austen, in a lively short piece ...

Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine.

Arsenic was a hidden killer in Victorian homes, but it also played a large part in the British economy. Which comes first: ...

Judy Z. Stephenson is Professor of the Economic History of the Built Environment at the Bartlett, UCL ...

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World by Edith Hall sees the signs of environmental ...

The Roman Empire had two main populations: gods and humans. By its end, there was only one god left. How, and why, did he ...

The young student’s name was Louis Braille, and though his name would forever be linked to the tactile writing system for the ...

The Merovingians have a reputation for long hair and barbarity. Instead, the dynasty, born out of the chaos of civil war, was one of peace, diplomacy, and bureaucracy.

Renaissance Florence had a problem: it wanted female sex workers, but it also needed to offer them a way out. The solution was a new brothel district – and a nunnery for former prostitutes ...

Renaissance Italy was dominated by rich and powerful families whose reputations have been shaped by the many dark and dastardly deeds they committed. In quattrocento Florence, the Medici bought, ...