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 ...

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

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 the least tragedy of a tragic life that Lincoln was obliged to face the most terrible decision of all, before he had grown to the full height of his Presidential stature. Taking a ...