The vagaries of palace politics are notoriously difficult to record. Historians should pay attention to rumour. D onald Trump ...

British soldiers fighting in the American Revolutionary War were unprepared for the terrain awaiting them across the Atlantic ...

Rosemary Wakeman’s The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941 is a tale of three cities linked by ...

The first year of Edward I’s reign saw waves of strictures placed on a Jewish community in an already perilous situation. It ...

What makes someone a king? More importantly, what unmakes a king? Henry II’s experiment in co-kingship saw one Henry III fall ...

How many planets are there? As with the discovery of Uranus, the answer depends on who you ask. Detail from Joseph Wright of ...

Today, where youth everywhere are the darlings of this world, and ‘older’ individuals are being more and more hurried into retirement, it is refreshing to read in history of an ‘old man’ totally ...