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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. In 1599 the poet Edmund Spenser died.

In The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again. The China Question argues that the Mongols’ brutal westward ...

During the First World War the pacifist Caroline Playne was horrified to see a passing train packed with: a couple of hundred de-humanised females, Amazonian beings bereft of reason or feeling, ...

In the late autumn of 1901 a woman named Laura Masall set off alone into the rocky grasslands of central Oklahoma to hunt for rattlesnakes. Contemporary newspapers painted Masall as one of the most ...