America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

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.

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 ...

Canada and the US have often been uneasy neighbours; the roots of the latest political flare up can be found in their tangled ...

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

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

Father of present-day Europe, Charles, King of the Franks, was one of the most extraordinary of all rulers. Discover the man and the life, 12 centuries after his reign.

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 ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera went through a troubled evolution, which he once said would earn him a martyr’s crown. In 1803 the composer, then in his thirties, was commissioned by Emanuel ...

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

Queenship was transformed in the early Middle Ages, as power came to be derived not just from marriage, but from God.