As well as Latin Christian victories, it described moments of suffering and struggle – and two occasions in which crusaders ...

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash ...

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Anna Whitelock offers a panoramic view of Jacobean foreign policy ...

In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

The motives behind Emily Wilding Davison’s fateful actions at the Epsom Derby are still debated – and so is their impact on ...

In 1381 England witnessed a medieval ‘summer of blood’ as the lower orders flexed their muscle in what became known as the ...

‘As soon as anything is missing, suspected to be stolen’, the British Journal reported wearily in February 1725, ‘the first course we steer is directly to the office of Mr Jonathan Wild.’ That office ...

‘What historical topic have I changed my mind on? The collapse of the Soviet Union. I used to think it was a relatively peaceful event.’ When I chose to study the Cold War I believed it would continue ...

It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding the bat with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Since the publication of Stoker’s novel, the connection has ...

Character, courage and the absence of her family made Mary Kingsley a pioneer explorer of West Africa. Her doctor father, George Kingsley, a younger brother of the much better known novelist and ...

In the early months of 1660 the taciturn West Country soldier George Monck held the fate of the British Isles in his hands. Oliver Cromwell was dead and the British republic had descended into chaos.