There was a grand uproar in the quadrangle, the men threw out to the boys old hats (which were immediately used as footballs) ...

In Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela, Magdalena S. Sánchez discovers a 16th-century marriage documented ...

Contemporary newspapers painted Masall as one of the most successful snake hunters in the United States of America. She had ...

Whig is beautiful? Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism by Adrian Wooldridge looks for signs of life ...

With the culling of USAID those days are over. I n 1941, with Europe and Asia convulsed by war, Henry Luce, founder of TIME ...

The first written references to prehistoric rock art were by the Chinese philosopher Han Fei in the third century BC. Europe ...

The sinking of the White Ship was a disaster for England’s King Henry I, but it was also felt deeply by his subjects.

In October 1562 Queen Elizabeth I lay unconscious in her chambers, and many feared that she would not survive. She had smallpox, a disease which could either disfigure or kill depending upon its ...

Edith-Matilda or Matilda II of England is best remembered as ‘Good Queen Maud’, the wife of Henry I and patron of the 12th century’s best-known chronicler, William of Malmesbury. As the daughter of ...

The most brilliant illustrator of his day and, with Oscar Wilde, the outstanding figure of the 1890s 'decadence', Aubrey Vincent Beardsley died, aged only twenty-five, very early in the morning of ...

The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without foundation. For as one writer remarked a generation after 1066, ‘French customs ...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that, in 883, King Alfred sent an embassy to India: [That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St Thomas and St ...