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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than debunk it. The Second World War disrupted narratives of mankind’s ‘progress’, ...

The bride and groom were both surnamed Roosevelt and the marriage united two branches of the family, comfortably moneyed and settled in New York City and upstate at Oyster Bay and Hyde Park. The bride ...

The famous story about Pope Gregory I, before he became pope, seeing some fair-haired English boys in a slave-market in Rome and saying, ‘Not Angles, but angels’ appeared in the first biography of him ...