A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century by Andrew Pettegree reveals the hard graft and innovation ...

The Men of the French Directory, 1795-9 by Biancamaria Fontana sets the record straight on the French Revolution’s great ...

The Rise and Fall of American Europe by Glyn Morgan finds a continent powerless before a capricious United States. Is it too ...

The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries.

Sailors looking for work in the 19th century risked getting crimped – or shanghaied – and caught in a whirlpool of ...

The column reached Red Square on 22 August, 84 days after departing, and laid flowers at the Kremlin wall. The riders ...

New York City started its glittering history in a modest way as the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. The story begins in 1609 when Henry Hudson, an English sea captain working for Dutch merchants, ...

Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University and author of In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship (Princeton University Press, 2026) ...

It marked a turning point in the Cold War: the president of the United States had just signed a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. The US military’s top brass were furious, having ...

At Worcester on Wednesday, September 3rd, the Roundheads under Oliver Cromwell routed Charles II and his Scots. The young king – he was twenty-one – slipped away on horseback with a few trusted ...

The British had shelled the Danish capital before, in 1801, but the second onslaught was even more devastating. The Danes had repaired their city and their fleet in the meantime, but late in July 1807 ...

In 1750 England and her empire, including the American colonies, still adhered to the old Julian calendar, which was now eleven days ahead of the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory ...