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 ...

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

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

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.

The founder of the Salvation Army was 83 when he died on August 20th, 1912. ‘The General,’ the Army announced, ‘has laid down his sword.’ His body lay in state for three days at the Congress Hall in ...

Jane needs no introduction to those who served in the Allied forces in the Second World War. Originally created as a character in a Daily Mirror cartoon strip, she soon became far more than that, ...

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