The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity ...

In 1874 a choir of African American singers concluded a successful tour of Britain, singing songs that confronted American ...

To the Ottomans, who took it in the 15th century, it was ‘infidel Smyrna’, the last Christian majority city in Asia. There ...

Who should claim Scotland’s royal jewels? After the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots, the answer was not clear cut.

What happened to the French airmen in the Second World War who bombed France to help liberate it? D uring the Second World ...

The French Resistance sought liberation above all else. But what should the postwar nation look like? The question was as old ...

Tyrant and usurper: the last wills of Richard II and Henry IV give rare insight into the medieval monarchs who wore the crown ...

Tyrant and usurper: the last wills of Richard II and Henry IV give rare insight into the medieval monarchs who wore the crown. The English noble and a major figure during the reign of Henry IV died on ...

‘One blood demands one reich,’ proclaimed Adolf Hitler on the first page of Mein Kampf. The result, in May 1938, was the German invasion of Austria, the so-called Anschluss. Yet one of his ...

Kenneth Arnold was flying a small plane over Mount Rainier in Washington when nine bright objects began tracking him at high ...