Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600 by A. Tunç Şen follows the fortunes ...

Five hundred years ago, in the early spring of 1526, browsers at the booksellers’ stalls clustered in the narrow lanes that ...

An army of help accompanied wealthy British sightseers on their 18th-century sojourns across the Continent. What was it like to travel as a servant on the Grand Tour?

St Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture, but in the US its parades have always been political.

Y ou have to know the angel is there before you can see him. He is hidden around a corner, a carving set high up on an ...

L ong before she died, the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner was horrified to realise that she was being written out of history ...

T he Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that, in 883, King Alfred sent an embassy to India: [That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St ...

Now famin beginneinge to Looke gastely and pale in every face, thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves ...

In April 1941, as it moved closer to direct involvement in the Second World War, the United States began expanding its military presence in Greenland. It did so out of strategic necessity, rather than ...

In 1947 a small Hampshire village briefly became the focus of national attention. On Lady Day, 25 March, some 800 villagers were due to take part in the centuries-old annual custom of the Tichborne ...