Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 by Robert Gildea is shaped more by heartbreak than heroism. When major political figures die, history is put on hold and the ...

T he sums are eye-watering. In 991 the English king Æthelred paid the Vikings £10,000 to stop them sacking the east coast of ...

The life of one of the leading British historians of the mid-20th century. ‘Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914’ review The winner of the 2018 Longman-History Today Book ...

Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden ...

The Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 is widely regarded as the most brilliant event of its kind. The Métro with its spectacular Art Nouveau stations was opened for it. So were the imposing Pont ...

Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?

What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours? A t 8.23am on the ...

In late 1945 and 1946 reporters from around the world were accommodated at a peculiar-looking castle in the Franconian town of Stein. It was an appropriate setting. The castle belonged to a dynasty of ...

Omar G. Encarnación is Charles Flint Kellogg Professor of Politics at Bard College and author of Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) ...

In the 1860s a young architect arrives in a small town in southern England. He has been sent to renovate the town’s great church, a splendid medieval building which has fallen into disrepair. The roof ...

For most of his adult life, the Old West gambler and gunslinger John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday (1851-87) had a reputation for violence. When he died of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis on 8 November 1887, ...

Tasked with stemming a growing wave of duels, Montevideo Police Chief Virgilio Sampognaro spared no effort in putting officers on the tail of men he identified as potential duellists or seconds in the ...