In Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Tim Blanning restores the ‘incorrigible Saxon’ to ...

It is, however, actually a sampler from Barbados – the earliest known Barbadian sampler in any collection. The RSN sampler is ...

Alexander Lee is a fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. His latest book is ...

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe by John J. Callanan revels in the making of ...

T he sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades when the German Lutheran author Johann Arndt published his Four Books on ...

The Russians were among the first Europeans to sense California's potential. Had they not sold their settlement there in 1841 ...

The vagaries of palace politics are notoriously difficult to record. Historians should pay attention to rumour.

In 1981, a horrific murder case required police in East Germany to go door-to-door collecting handwriting samples. There was ...

T he question of how history judges prime ministers can be answered in one word: haphazardly. This is because, of course, ...

British soldiers fighting in the American Revolutionary War were unprepared for the terrain awaiting them across the Atlantic ...

General elections in Britain were once weeks-long affairs of corruption and chaos. The shift to one-day polling was slow. Soldiers on the front line in France and Flanders saw their fight as the only ...