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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In the summer of 1940 millions of French men and women were beginning to grasp the reality of the Armistice signed by Marshal Pétain on 22 June that year. The elderly First World War veteran – known ...

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

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

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

Like Lalande, many writers argued by analogy, a rhetorical technique that then punched considerable weight. Fuelled by ...

Part of what they chose to re-enact, for the amusement of a casual festival audience, was a 12th-century Norman law court.