The annexation of Cyprus was more than another milestone in Roman expansion – it was a showcase of political theatre. In the ...
Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding goes where few historians dare: south of ...
In Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, Matthias Egeler follows the huldufólk from the wild places of ...
The term 'cold war' first came into currency in 1947. It was used to denote a sharp and unexpected deterioration in postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. In 1945 the USA ...
Traditionally regarded with near contempt, the office of Vice President was created almost by accident. The importance of the ‘Veep’ has grown considerably since. Mark Rathbone looks at the Battle of ...
Caught out of hours in a regimental brothel run by the British army in Kanpur, northern India, in the late 1930s, Private David Lloyd Griffiths was in trouble. Remembering the incident years later, he ...