Last month I submitted an article on Elizabethan diplomacy to an academic journal. It was the result of several months of ...

The answer is likely more repression, impoverisation and control by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). China’s political ...

Wives for the settlers at Jamestown by William Ludwell Sheppard, 1876. New York Public Library. Public Domain.

From the suffragettes to Just Stop Oil, the gallery – specifically Diego Velásquez’s Rokeby Venus – has been a magnet for ...

Cita Stelzer’s Churchill’s American Network and David Reynolds’ Mirrors of Greatness seek to bring Churchill’s contemporaries ...

I spent my school years in Beirut and Cairo, a witness to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War, Sadat’s trip to ...

In 1912 Cecilia Payne (later Payne-Gaposchkin), a 12-year-old schoolgirl, decided to carry out her own heavenly research. She ...

We need to ask how much deference there actually was’ Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. I have my own tale of deference. My ...