In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael ...

In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British.

In 13th-century England excommunication was akin to spiritual leprosy. How did it work?

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce and Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of ...

Whether as ‘Gloriana’ or ‘Good Queen Bess’ Elizabeth I is one of England’s most iconic monarchs, but did her gender shape her ...

European intelligence agencies assisted Mossad’s Wrath of God assassination campaign, while their governments condemned them.

In Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea, Luka Ivan Jukic makes the case for Mitteleuropa as a time that land forgot.

By 1240, it was a fully fledged military order of the Catholic Church (established on the pattern of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller) and its forces were active in many theatres of war, especially ...

Though the European single currency may seem modern, its roots go back to the 9th-century Christiana religio coins of Louis the Pious.

During the early period of the Islamic empire, following the Prophet’s death in 630, armies were primarily composed of Arab warriors, with slaves and freedmen (often referred to as mawali or clients) ...

In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her roundtable discussion programme Prospects of ...

How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy alliance between oil, autocracy, and Wahhabism. I am struck by how little many ...