Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England: Essays Presented to Gerald Harriss Edited by Rowena E. Archer and Simon Walker (Hambledon xxviii + 270 pp.) The Politics of Fifteenth-Century England: John ...

At 6am on a wintery March morning in 1939 Adolf Hitler shattered the fragile European peace brokered six months earlier at the Munich conference by sending the Wehrmacht across the border into what ...

The masculinity that Gerald represented, and that Peter was suggesting, was as far removed as possible from the secular ...

Arsenic was a hidden killer in Victorian homes, but it also played a large part in the British economy. Which comes first: ...

Writing from the safety of exile in eastern Tennessee, in the late 1850s the fiery Irish nationalist John Mitchel published a series of articles in his proslavery newspaper the Southern Citizen. In ...

Henry IV ascended the throne of England much to his own satisfaction in the year 1399. As opening lines for a history go, this is an excellent one. Its author was the teenage Jane Austen, in a lively ...

In her 2010 memoir Tales from a Mountain City, Quynh Dao – who was 15 at the fall of Saigon in 1975 – describes returning to Dalat, a city in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, at the end of the war. The ...

The Industrial Revolution was a profound crisis and upheaval in industrial organisation, or the way people work. This is a far more useful description than any which emphasise the shift away from ...

The Merovingians have a reputation for long hair and barbarity. Instead, the dynasty, born out of the chaos of civil war, was one of peace, diplomacy, and bureaucracy.

Across Britain, people could sense the end of the war approaching by the spring of 1945. After five-and-a-half years of death and destruction, VE Day would provide a moment of rejoicing and relief, ...