Since 1708 there has been vicious competition over the Spanish treasure galleon San José, its cargo, and, now, its sunken remains.
The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved incredibly popular in the medieval German-speaking world. How did he get there ...
It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of ...
The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of ...
From royal waltzes to arms contracts, Britain’s relationship with Tito’s Yugoslavia was a blend of spectacle and strategy, ...
The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of Travancore discovered. The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved ...
The capture of the ‘Eternal City’ by the king of the Ostrogoths, Totila, was one episode in a complex thirty-year struggle for control of the Italian peninsula between the barbarians who had ...
Frederick II was ill for some months before his death. Early in December 1250 a fierce attack of dysentery confined him to his hunting lodge of Castel Fiorentino in the south of Italy, which was part ...