Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than ...

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 ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

I n the 1820s London was the largest city in the world. With more than a million inhabitants, it lay at the heart of an ...

Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...

Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James Romm looks for hope amid the sound and fury surrounding the great orator of ancient Athens.