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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The largest legal confrontation in 19th-century France began not over revolutionary machines or innovative pharmaceutical products, but musical instruments. This was a time when the economy was in a ...

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

The Campo de’ Fiori, near the spot where Julius Caesar was murdered, is Rome’s marketplace and also the place where heretics were executed. It was there that the faggots were piled high for the ...

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