Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has ...

A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos ...

A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present by Joep Leerssen looks to art and not politics for the ...

Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English by Elisabeth van Houts is a sympathetic biography of the woman who would be king.

The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz vividly reconstructs the world that produced Wuthering Heights. Are there limits to ...

As ancient Rome was divided by civil war Cicero found himself torn. Caesar was his old adversary, but he was also powerful, and it was politically and personally expedient to support him.

The first Irish Republican bomb detonated on English soil was not intended as an act of terrorism, but its impact – and death ...

I n August 1944, as the French Resistance fought to liberate Paris, Albert Camus went to see Jean-Paul Sartre at the ...

M ost historians would probably say that King Arthur was just a myth. This consensus was established in 1977 in a brilliant ...

During the reign of Sultan Mehmet IV (r. 1648-87), the Dîvân-ı Hümâyûn (imperial council) would meet every other morning in a domed chamber of the Topkapi Palace. When the Grand Vizier and his ...

How one company opened an entire sub-continent to economic and political development, with huge ramifications for India, Britain, and the world. Between 1709 and the mid-19th century the East India ...

Suffragette sets out to tell the story of the ‘footsoldiers’ of the women’s suffrage movement. Director Sarah Gavon and writer Abi Morgan have therefore made the refreshing decision to avoid a more ...