Britain’s self-styled ‘Thief-Taker General’ was not all he seemed. On 24 May 1725 Jonathan Wild was finally brought to justice. ‘Jonathan Wild pelted by the Mob on his way to Tyburn’, by Valois.

Hitler’s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht by Douglas Carl Peifer surfaces the stories of those who sought to sit ...

As Nasser moved to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was forced to choose between faith and ...

In the febrile political climate of early modern Europe, letters – and the information they contained – were dangerous.

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that chance rather than characters shaped the clash between ...

In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Anna Whitelock offers a panoramic view of Jacobean foreign policy ...

It was Pierre Trudeau who famously summed up Canada’s ‘American dilemma’ when speaking to an audience at the National Press ...

When Samuel Pepys’ diary was first published 200 years ago it was an instant hit, but rumours soon spread about what had been cut and why.

In March 1873, George Augustus Sala – newspaper columnist and founder of London’s Savage Club – published an article titled ‘Philosophy of Grand Hotels’ in Belgravia magazine. Imagining the capital ...

Women, wrote the feminist Charlotte Stopes in 1890, were suffering under ‘the Despotism of the goddess Fashion’. Stopes belonged to the Rational Dress Society, which campaigned for comfort in women’s ...

The name Philip was Greek and uncommon in the Western Europe of the 11th century. Meaning ‘lover of horses’ (philippos), it was probably bestowed on the future Capetian monarch by his mother, Anne, a ...