Giovanni Morell—later Morelli—was born in Vernona on 25 February 1816 beginning a lifetime of dedication to the art of the ...

Bestiaries – medieval books containing descriptions of real-life and imaginary animals, accompanied by moralising tales – ...

Tool of social control or check on tyranny? The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki crafts a history for the ...

The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at ...

A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest ...

The persecution began on 23 February 303. It was the feast of Terminus, the god of boundaries – chosen, Lactantius says, ‘so ...

The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.

Geoffrey Parker is Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History at the Ohio State ...

As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.

The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...

American air raids on Japan’s capital burned the city in March 1945, killing 80,000 people in one night alone. ‘Had to be done,’ said the general who ordered it. ‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans ...

On 16 January 1926, the BBC broke the news that a murderous mob was storming the capital. Broadcasting the Barricades wasn’t supposed to be a hoax, but it was an effective one. There was no law ...