The Indefatigable Asa Briggs: A Biography by Adam Sisman is a detailed portrait of that voluminous chronicler of Victorian ...

The lifelong rivalry of two early modern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

Childbirth in the early modern period was a battleground between midwives and surgeons. The Chamberlen family of surgeons ...

It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and ...

Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village invites reflection on half a century of change.

This invokes many references to architectural details from Homer’s account of Odysseus’ eventual homecoming: the threshold, where the goddess Athena, descending from Olympus, alighted; the entrance ...

Unlike his two predecessors of the House of Hanover, George III was raised in England and spoke English as his first language. Born two months prematurely in London in 1738 and baptised George William ...

Elected president of Argentina in 1946, Juan Perón was re-elected in 1952. The origins of his fall have been traced back to the premature death that year of his wife, the glamorous Evita, of cancer in ...

Would Mary Shelley have conceived of her novel of 1818, Frankenstein, without the work of the Italian scientist Luigi Galvani? Looking back at its creation, she recalled long conversations with Lord ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and Christianity itself. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman ...

They go low, we go lower. The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain by George Owers offers up the origins ...