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

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

Ancient Greek reflections on imperial power have unsettling resonance in the geopolitics of Donald Trump.

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

Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600 by A. Tunç Şen follows the fortunes ...

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

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.

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 ...

Now famin beginneinge to Looke gastely and pale in every face, thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves ...

In the 17th century palliative care was the most common approach to cancer. However, physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, and other, unorthodox, medical practitioners were keen to trial possible ...

The same month another revolution began in the back room of a bar up the street. It was called the Cabaret Voltaire. The man behind it was Hugo Ball, a German poet. Ball needed money. He persuaded the ...