The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of ...

But it wasn’t an engraving. It was a sheet of finely woven silk – a thousand threads to the inch – so subtle and detailed ...

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) is a profoundly – even unsettlingly – historical novel. Granted, it doesn’t look ...

In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems. I n 1563 ...

John Womack’s Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. Just before the Big Bang. I realise there are risks attached. In 1968 Jack ...

On 7 December 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, triggering war ...

The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved incredibly popular in the medieval German-speaking world. How did he get there ...

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of ...

From royal waltzes to arms contracts, Britain’s relationship with Tito’s Yugoslavia was a blend of spectacle and strategy, ...

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for ...

One of these was Joyce Butler, the backbench Labour and Co-operative MP for Wood Green. Having had a longstanding interest in ...

A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda by Derek R. Peterson looks for the ordinary people who kept the regime’s wheels ...