Sailors looking for work in the 19th century risked getting crimped – or shanghaied – and caught in a whirlpool of ...

In 1943 letters reporting starvation and death in Bengal began to reach Indian soldiers serving the British overseas. Despite ...

A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular by Jonathan Sheehan places bloodletting at the heart of Western thought ...

The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf brings the most enlightened of ...

The Victorian reading public had access to a vast array of classical literature from Asia in multiple translations by experts ...

Early Stuart England saw the emergence of mass petitioning. These expressions of collective grievance would advance popular ...

At the turn of the 1890s he began working on designs. A patent was granted on 31 August 1895. It would be years before he won ...

From the printing press to the internet, the spread of information has changed the world. How do we recognise an age defined ...

The final fraudulent Cottingley fairies photograph was taken on 21 August 1920 by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.

Born in the Ukraine in 1879 and later hailed by one admirer as the greatest Jew since Jesus Christ, Lev Bronstein became famous under another name. From 1902 he called himself Trotsky, adapted from ...

For the thousands of foreign visitors who travelled behind the ‘bamboo curtain’ to visit Mao’s China, hospitality workers – guides, drivers, waiters, chambermaids – were unofficial ambassadors for the ...

Locals called the area ‘La Cività’; a clue, perhaps. It was proposed as the site of Pompeii as early as 1637, but formal digs did not begin until 1748. The site’s value was as a source of antiquities ...