Death came with a test: could you pronounce the Sicilian word for chickpea, ciciri? By the morning 2,000 had been slain and ...

Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989 by Andrea Horbinski reveals the colourful ...

Although the reception was not always warm, the English East India Company made several attempts to trade in Japan in the ...

Once we get over that, we can start to write a history of emotions. Equally, of course, we must not imagine that the feelings ...

An Investigative History by Caroline Sharples explores the public fascination with the dictator’s demise and the tall tales ...

Chandos had gained his wealth and title through government service and he invested in many projects and schemes; during the ...

I n July 1099 Jerusalem fell to the armies of the First Crusade. Amid scenes of slaughter and triumph, Godfrey of Bouillon, ...

A New History by Roderick Beaton discovers a continent searching for a definition. To call the story of European history ...

How Frederick Louis, the eldest son of George II and Queen Caroline, came to meet his death, a few weeks after his forty-fourth birthday, is not quite certain. A keen games player, he was struck hard ...

In the early years of the 20th century Ireland seemed to be moving towards civil war. Nationalists in the mainly Roman Catholic areas of most of the country were demanding more independence from Great ...

The high incidence of illegitimate births in rural Scotland was front-page news in the early 1950s. Within two decades, what ...