Chevaliere d’Eon or Chevalier d’Eon? An 18th-century legal dispute between two French spies unravelled into a public battle ...

Caught between the antagonistic states of India and Pakistan, Kashmir is stuck in geopolitical limbo. Its location – and its ...

So when Raúl Castro called for an end to the embargo based on economic and humanitarian grounds in late December, he was ...

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and ...

A new book for the new year is an old British custom, but an old book can be even better.

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us that when it comes to sexuality ...

The victorious general of the American War of Independence and first President of the United States retired from public life in 1797, at the end of his second term, and withdrew to his estate at Mount ...

The remarkable fall of absinthe: from 19th-century ‘Green Fairy’ to scourge of society.

Why are you a historian of modern war? My interest in war goes back to the stories my grandparents told me of life in London and Coventry during the Second World War. It would be fascinating to see ...

The murder of the Chief Secretary for Ireland and the Under-Secretary which took place on the evening of May 6th, 1882, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, shocked our Victorian ancestors in a way that the ...