Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels finds that the son of God is more than the sum of his ...

Now, in Florence’s hour of peril, it was high time that an equally, if not more, dazzling pair should be cast for the north ...

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley follows in ...

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet ...

As well as Latin Christian victories, it described moments of suffering and struggle – and two occasions in which crusaders ...

Mount’s depiction of Thatcher as a ‘hostage’ stands in stark contrast to her usual image as the ‘Iron Lady’. It raises ...

In a recent tweet, Robert Jenrick, shadow justice secretary, denounced immigrants from ‘alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women’. He claimed that these ‘medieval attitudes’ were ...

In September 1781, Thomas Hughes, then 22, visited Brighton for what he hoped would be a restorative holiday. It was not his first trip: such sojourns were common for Hughes. But on this occasion ...

The two Kennedy brothers were assassinated within five years of each other. Robert Francis Kennedy was forty-two when he was shot down in Los Angeles. The seventh child of his family and the ...

‘What historical topic have I changed my mind on? The collapse of the Soviet Union. I used to think it was a relatively peaceful event.’ When I chose to study the Cold War I believed it would continue ...

It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding the bat with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Since the publication of Stoker’s novel, the connection has ...