Today, the celebrated nude by the Spanish painter Diego Velásquez, known as The Rokeby Venus, is one of the most popular ...

Cita Stelzer’s Churchill’s American Network and David Reynolds’ Mirrors of Greatness seek to bring Churchill’s contemporaries ...

In 1912 Cecilia Payne (later Payne-Gaposchkin), a 12-year-old schoolgirl, decided to carry out her own heavenly research. She ...

Solomon Shereshevsky died on 1 May 1958 . He dreamt of being a hero but achieved greatness of another kind.

We need to ask how much deference there actually was’ Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. I have my own tale of deference. My ...

The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby surfaces Umayyad and ...

A Nottinghamshire election in 1593 descended into farce, violence and, ultimately, futility.

The Church Council of Constance assembled in 1414 under pressure from the Holy Roman Emperor to resolve the confusing and embarrassing situation in which the Church found itself with three popes all ...