When an unmarried servant returned home pregnant in the 17th century, women in her community helped her ‘part with child’ – ...
For much of its modern history state lotteries were seen as antithetical to Britain’s moral values. The introduction of the ...
In late 1956 hundreds of thousands of Hungarians joined an uprising against the country’s Moscow-oriented government. 70 ...
As the Thirty Years War ravaged the Continent, news reached England of strange phenomena. What did it portend?
Master of Rome by David Potter, The Roman World War by Giusto Traina, and Livia by Caitlin C. Gillespie – tell us about ...
The discovery of the molecular structure of benzene by Kathleen Lonsdale helped to reveal the secrets of carbon-based life, ...
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d’État by Ruth First is a timely reissue from the first wave of Africa’s ‘coup ...
O n 8 January 1981 Isabel Allende was living in Venezuela when she learned that her grandfather was dying. A cousin of ...
On 25 October 1786 the physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg happened upon the aspect ratio for the perfect piece of paper.
Incognito investigative journalism was a Victorian invention. What explained its overnight success?
Alexander Lee considers new evidence which suggests that Machiavelli may not have been the archetypal proponent of power politics he is remembered as. Few figures in the history of political thought ...
On September 15th, 1830 the MP for Liverpool and former Cabinet minister, William Huskisson, alighted from his carriage on the steam locomotive Northumbrian and became the first person ever to die in ...
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