In The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642, Jonathan Healey holds Juntos and ‘jittery times’ responsible for England’s ...

Though his relics are reviled, his impact is more keenly felt than ever. Can The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes by ...

The wine trade in medieval Tunis was lucrative, but it caused a moral quandary for the ruling Hafsids.

Depending on one’s vantage point, the meaning of the French Revolution varies. The First Republic succumbed to an imperial ...

Court-martialled in absentia on 2 August 1940, the Vichy regime confiscated de Gaulle’s property and condemned him to death.

An early modern ship’s surgeon had to treat not just broken bones but distress and trauma. I n September 1649 ship’s surgeon ...

Age Beauty Farm’ – a combination spa, charm school, weight-loss clinic, and summer camp – was billed as ‘the only place in the world dedicated to making the teen-ager more beautiful’. It attracted ...

In the early 20th century few political issues inspired such passion and vitriol in the United Kingdom as whether to impose tariffs on imported goods. An apparently esoteric issue of high-level fiscal ...

Dashing, accomplished, highly intelligent and interested in everything, James IV of Scots enjoyed himself with mistresses while manoeuvring to secure a politically useful bride. He was thirty when a ...

John Hanning Speke, an army officer’s son from the West Country, was commissioned into the army of the East India Company in 1844 at the age of seventeen. In 1854 he eagerly joined an expedition to ...

The two leading figures of the South American wars of independence were Simon Bolivar in the north and José de San Martín in the south. Their paths met in Ecuador, where the modest and unselfish San ...

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was Lord High Treasurer of England when he died, aged seventy-seven, in his London house in Covent Garden. Sprung from a comfortably-off country gentry family with ...