The body belonged to Charles d’Espagne, constable of France and its most powerful figure after the king, Jean II. The man ...

On 25 December 336 Rome’s believers celebrated Christmas Day – the earliest recorded use of that date as it spread across ...

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of ...

The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved incredibly popular in the medieval German-speaking world. How did he get there ...

The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of ...

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) is a profoundly – even unsettlingly – historical novel. Granted, it doesn’t look ...

In 1563 Elizabeth Flynte, a servant from Haselor, Warwickshire, described the extra-marital activities of her mistress to the church court of the Lichfield diocese: He come in here this night, ...

But it wasn’t an engraving. It was a sheet of finely woven silk – a thousand threads to the inch – so subtle and detailed ...

From royal waltzes to arms contracts, Britain’s relationship with Tito’s Yugoslavia was a blend of spectacle and strategy, ...

History Today was launched, but in what ways? I can’t remember when I first read History Today: probably not in 1951, when I was seven, but soon afterwards my parents bought me a subscription, since ...

The 50th anniversary of women’s suffrage in 1968 prompted a moment of soul searching for many women frustrated at how little progress seemed to have been made towards equality. One of these was Joyce ...

When the aurora borealis appeared in the skies of 18th-century Europe, Enlightenment scientists first turned to history to understand it.