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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Mikhail Bulgakov wasn’t all that bothered about the future, even on his deathbed. The last photos of him, taken in his Moscow apartment in February 1940, show no trace of fear. Although his face is ...

Around 1540 Martin Luther received a letter from a pastor in rural Saxony, asking for advice on how to deal with the corpse of a recently deceased woman who was steadily eating herself in the grave ...

On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the cinema. The woman was seven months pregnant and was walking slowly when a grey Volvo stopped ...

When the burger landed on the tables of the first Wimpy Bar in 1954, it marked a new era of modernity, global connection, and convenience for a Britain rebuilding from the austerity of the Second ...