Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...

‘The risks are acute when we turn to traditional periodisations’ Levi Roach is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter There can be no doubt that monarchs bulk inordinately large in ...

In the summer of 1668 commissioners of the Swedish Lutheran Church arrived in the parish of Maarja-Magdaleena in northern Estonia. On Midsummer’s Eve (23 June) the commissioners witnessed how the ...

In the pleasant Evenlode Valley, where Oxfordshire borders on Gloucestershire, was born, in 1732, the man who was destined to play the part of Augustus to Clive’s Caesar in the British empire of India ...

Early in 1816, Lady Charlotte Campbell paid a social call on a duchess in Rome, and collected “a good deal of English news.” The news, of course, was gossip, and the gossip, naturally, was gossip ...

On 5 July 1852 the curtain came down on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa. Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the ...

‘W ar Spirit High in Italian Reservists’ read a headline in the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York on 25 May 1915. Two days later the Vancouver Daily World proclaimed: ‘Local Italians Keen ...

In 1453 the Orthodox city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the forces of Mehmed II. Christians fled and the city began its transformation into the seat of the Ottoman ...

For all the pages printed about recent politics and politicians in Westminster, this is the first book about the building itself to be published in over twenty years. Illustrated with newly ...

In the London borough of Sutton, lying between the two modern roads of Croydon Lane and Woodmansterne Road, is a park that once formed part of an estate called Lambert’s Oaks. During the eighteenth ...