Byron was not alone among the poets of his day in his love of the Prize Ring: John Keats, John Clare, John Hamilton Reynolds ...

Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline That Listened by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith reveals unsung – but not unheard – ...

There was a grand uproar in the quadrangle, the men threw out to the boys old hats (which were immediately used as footballs) ...

In Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela, Magdalena S. Sánchez discovers a 16th-century marriage documented ...

Today, most people know the term ‘snake oil’ as a figure of speech: an image to capture a fake medicine or quack nostrum. The ...

Whig is beautiful? Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism by Adrian Wooldridge looks for signs of life ...

With the culling of USAID those days are over. I n 1941, with Europe and Asia convulsed by war, Henry Luce, founder of TIME ...

The first written references to prehistoric rock art were by the Chinese philosopher Han Fei in the third century BC. Europe ...

If the present, with its conflicts and uncertainties, is impossible to know, asks Italo Calvino, how can we hope to understand the past?

One of the first victims of the Siege of Leningrad was Betty. She had arrived in the city in 1911 and quickly established herself as an important part of her community. On 8 September 1941 – just a ...

Edith-Matilda or Matilda II of England is best remembered as ‘Good Queen Maud’, the wife of Henry I and patron of the 12th century’s best-known chronicler, William of Malmesbury. As the daughter of ...

In October 1562 Queen Elizabeth I lay unconscious in her chambers, and many feared that she would not survive. She had smallpox, a disease which could either disfigure or kill depending upon its ...