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 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 ...

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 ...

Mohandas Gandhi’s reputation as the Indian spiritual and political leader who coordinated and led a successful national struggle for independence against British imperial rule on the strength of a non ...