Henry VIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?

The Maginot Line: A New History by Kevin Passmore confronts the myths surrounding the fall of France in 1940.

Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed a great success, but it had unexpected consequences. P rewar ...

As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by. A t its height ...

Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the 16th century, but its attitude to its own poor ...

The ancestor of the London Gazette was launched on 16 November 1665, surviving its bitter rival to become the oldest newspaper in the English-speaking world still in print.

The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the worlds at the ...

On 14 November 1848 the Fox sisters conjured up a movement when they made contact with the dead – or so they claimed.

Early in 1221 the army of the Fifth Crusade was encamped in the city of Damietta in northern Egypt. As it planned its next move, messengers began to arrive bearing wondrous news. An army was ...

In 1955 the rule on the buses in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, was that ‘coloured’ passengers must sit at the back and leave the front seats to white passengers. In December a Black woman in her ...

The sums are eye-watering. In 991 the English king Æthelred paid the Vikings £10,000 to stop them sacking the east coast of England. Three years later a sum variously recorded as £16,000 or £22,000 ...