Solomon Shereshevsky died on 1 May 1958 . He dreamt of being a hero but achieved greatness of another kind.

We need to ask how much deference there actually was’ Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. I have my own tale of deference. My ...

The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby surfaces Umayyad and ...

A Nottinghamshire election in 1593 descended into farce, violence and, ultimately, futility.

It is not known where your lord will send you then, when you can no longer enjoy life, a home in your own country, as you did ...

As Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of ...

Is Orkney Scandinavian or Scottish? Having passed from the former to the latter during the Middle Ages, for centuries the ...

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was established in 1909 to exploit the Persian Gulf oil field, which had been discovered the year before. The name was later changed to Anglo-Iranian. By 1950 the company ...

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor revels in the tangles of Victorian thought. Where does new life come from? According to one theory ...