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

At the turn of the 1890s he began working on designs. A patent was granted on 31 August 1895. It would be years before he won ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

Zog I was probably the strangest monarch of the 20th century. The Times called him ‘the bizarre King Zog’ and his biographer, Jason Tomes, quotes descriptions of him ranging from ‘a despotic brigand’ ...

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 ...

The history of British involvement in Malaya goes back to 1786, when the East India Company established a trading post on Penang Island. Sir Stamford Raffles founded a British settlement on the island ...

The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf brings the most enlightened of Enlightenment radicals into the mainstream. Forgotten Experts: ...