On 27 July MPs filed into Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons to cast the first ever votes for a Conservative leader.

Collingwood and Nelson went to Nicaragua to fight ashore, the Spaniards as well as the French having decided to aid the ...

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women and God’s Own Gentlewoman bring the real world of ...

The Cold War forged new international relationships in which physical distance seemed overcome by ideological proximity. In ...

An exiled revolutionary, André Rigaud’s return to the island of his birth changed Haiti’s political destiny. Was he sent back to help reinstate slavery? His enemies would have us believe so. In April ...

Pivotal to any consideration of Napoleon’s ultimate defeat is the fact that he did not inherit a foreign relations strategy, but developed his own. Therefore he should bear a high degree of ...

No Scottish clan is as controversial as the Campbells. Yet, says Ian Bradley, the opening of its Argyll Mausoleum offers a chance to re-assess a contentious past. After years of service in the West ...

When Abbot Abbo of Fleury agreed to travel to Gascony to advise on the reform of the monastery of La Réole, he would not have expected that his trip would result in his death. Yet in 1004 Abbo was the ...

The best historical novels infer aspects of lives of which no trace remains. George Garnett starts awarding grades. Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion? Constitutional history dominated ...

I n the late 70s AD Marcus Cerrinius Vatia ran for the lower magisterial office of aedile in the ancient city of Pompeii. More than 80 inscriptions, painted on the walls of the city’s buildings, ...