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?

On a November night in 1588 Lawrence Jackson stood waiting at the gates of Fawsley Hall, a manor house on the outskirts of Northampton. Housekeeper at Fawsley for more than a decade, he was used to ...

Fearing the loss of regional identity, at the end of the 19th century, the French Basques invented a cultural tradition – but did that make them a threat to national unity?

For the Victorians and Edwardians, the late British summer was a time of sun, sand – and sea serpents.

Wild celebrations erupted in Washington DC on Saturday, September 7th 1850, when the Bill which made California the thirty-first state of the United States was passed by the House of Representatives.

For the past 30 years Ghana has set an example for the durability of its democratic political system. Elections in December 2024 only reinforced that image, especially at a time of military coups in ...

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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.