The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity ...

In listening to the war’s loudest voices, Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare by Gregory ...

Like Lalande, many writers argued by analogy, a rhetorical technique that then punched considerable weight. Fuelled by ...

The seventh-century prince Mahendravarman Pallava and his cousin Vajrabodhi, the Indian tantric Buddhist answer to Merlin. Hindi, Urdu, French, Italian and a little Persian and Arabic. I am ashamed to ...

Who should claim Scotland’s royal jewels? After the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots, the answer was not clear cut.

In 1874 a choir of African American singers concluded a successful tour of Britain, singing songs that confronted American ...

What happened to the French airmen in the Second World War who bombed France to help liberate it? D uring the Second World ...

Uzbekistan was a product of Islamic modernism and Soviet might. Free from the latter, the nation now seeks to foreground the ...

In October 1666, Louise de La Vallière, the mistress of Louis XIV, gave birth to another daughter in the hotel Brion, a little house he had bought for her in the grounds of the Palais-Royal. The child ...

ISIS is an organisation as fascinating as it is abhorrent. It is not too cavalier to characterise it as the world’s bloodiest historical re-enactment society. The chief conceit upon which ISIS bases ...

The French Resistance sought liberation above all else. But what should the postwar nation look like? The question was as old ...