T he Seventh Dragoon Guards made one of the last charges of the First World War at 10.30am on 11 November 1918, galloping ...

Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed a great success, but it had unexpected consequences. P rewar ...

The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the worlds at the ...

On 14 November 1848 the Fox sisters conjured up a movement when they made contact with the dead – or so they claimed.

As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by. A t its height ...

Other satellite technologies have also revolutionised daily life. Weather satellites have made forecasts more accurate, while ...

Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of Nuclear Disaster by Melanie Arndt discovers how civil society flourished – and then faltered – in the fallout.

The path leading from Edmond Halley’s writings on magnetism to UFOs under Brazil is as convoluted as you might expect. Nonetheless, it was Halley – best known for using Newtonian mechanics to predict ...

El Generalísimo: Franco: Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness by Giles Tremlett considers the making of the mediocrity ...

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French traces the line between civil rights in the US and decolonisation in Africa.

A literate slave was a must-have in wealthy ancient Roman households. Keen to capitalise on this taste for learning, masters and slaves alike turned education into profit.

Early in the summer months of 1587 John Towne, a performer in the renowned Queen’s Men acting company, was languishing in jail. At some point on the evening of 13 June, while his company was on tour ...