Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell illuminates the inner life and passions of James VI ...

Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England by Martyn Percy takes the British Empire’s church militant to task. Is ...

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

Buddhism: A Journey Through History by Donald S. Lopez Jr. swiftly soon loses sight of the Buddha himself. Is that a bad ...

How did early modern millers get their bad reputations? B y the end of the medieval period millers had poor reputations.

Alice Hunt is Professor of Early Modern Literature and History at the University of Southampton and author of Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660 (Faber and Faber) The technical answer ...

In late April 1555 London erupted with joy at the rumour that Queen Mary I – ‘Bloody Mary’ – had finally given birth to a son. The whole city celebrated. According to the Venetian ambassador Giovanni ...

In 1966 and 1967 a group of left-wing intellectuals and radical activists, recruited by the nonagenarian philosopher Bertrand Russell, constituted themselves into a self-proclaimed ‘tribunal’ to try ...