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

American air raids on Japan’s capital burned the city in March 1945, killing 80,000 people in one night alone. ‘Had to be ...

Russia’s entry into the global economy was met with glee by international firms in the early 1990s. The exodus has been just ...

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

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing brings folklore’s most famous double act out of the shadowy realm of legend ...

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

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

Tool of social control or check on tyranny? The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki crafts a history for the herd. Rulers misleading their people, from the Discussions of Varro by Maïtre ...

Henry VII’s queen lies buried beside him in Westminster Abbey in a magnificent marble tomb provided by their son, Henry VIII. The face of her effigy may have been based on her death mask, taken when ...