On Lady Day, 25 March, some 800 villagers were due to take part in the centuries-old annual custom of the Tichborne Dole, in which a gift of flour was distributed by the local landed family, the ...

Strategically important during the Second World War, US soldiers could not wait to leave Greenland. I n April 1941, as it moved closer to direct involvement in the Second World War, the United States ...

Edward Lee was born in Kent in 1482 and lived a rather unremarkable life as a priest until the age of 35. In 1517, however, he made the decision to visit the small university town of Louvain, a few ...

As Malaya headed towards independence, the spectre of identity politics loomed. What place for cosmopolitan Penang and its ...

During the Crimean War soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

Joan of Arc was put on trial twice, once before and once after her death. The records made at these trials are often used as evidence of Joan’s own words – but whose voice was really recorded?

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London.

In the fight against rising river pollution by big corporations, legal cases have had to get creative. O n 8 October 2025 nearly 4,000 people joined a claim submitted to the High Court. Described in ...

On 13 February 1692 the Macdonalds of Glencoe were put to the sword by troops loyal to William III. Nobody was held to ...

Compassion from the Kremlin often proved as short-lived as its critics. In Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, ...

An answer is suggested by a reminiscence of Malcolm covering a Chemistry lesson, a subject about which he took some pride in parading his almost total ignorance. ‘Like the ancients’, he began, ‘I ...

A Concise History breaks off these later accretions and unearths their long history. Runes’ primary function as an alphabetic writing system is underlined throughout, as part of the ‘uphill battle’ ...