From imported plant species to water pollution, Britain’s 19th century wool trade transformed the world. I n the early 1910s ...

Seasoned readers of this column may recall an earlier appreciation of the benefits of boredom, specifically when it is brought on by reading less-than-compelling history books. But reading is not the ...

The Kings and Queens: An Irreverent Cartoon History of the British Monarchy by Kenneth Baker (Thames and Hudson 192 pp.) The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III by Diana ...

The Nazi camps at Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen were liberated on 11 and 15 April 1945 respectively. In the week that followed, graphic photographs and descriptions of the horrors found by Allied ...

The British film magnate J. Arthur Rank, who put up close to £600,000 to finance Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, was not unnaturally nervous about how much of it he would ever see back. All visitors were ...

In December 1593 Robert Persons, a leader of the English Jesuits on the Continent, was putting the finishing touches to a book he had been working on. Written in the English seminary that he had ...

Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of words.

In April 1945 ten British politicians flew to Germany tasked with investigating the ‘truth’ about Buchenwald concentration camp.

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 ...