Whig is beautiful? Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism by Adrian Wooldridge looks for signs of life ...

Today, most people know the term ‘snake oil’ as a figure of speech: an image to capture a fake medicine or quack nostrum. The ...

Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline That Listened by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith reveals unsung – but not unheard – ...

In Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela, Magdalena S. Sánchez discovers a 16th-century marriage documented ...

There was a grand uproar in the quadrangle, the men threw out to the boys old hats (which were immediately used as footballs) ...

Seabirds are mentioned in European sources throughout the 16th century, but birds like the fura buchos are often overlooked ...

According to Sir Walter Scott, Jonathan Swift’s friends were able to pinpoint the source of this inspiration: ‘the habitual ...

Byron was not alone among the poets of his day in his love of the Prize Ring: John Keats, John Clare, John Hamilton Reynolds ...

Around 1900 Juho Arhippainen, a Russian peddler who traded seasonally in the Grand Duchy of Finland, was forced to flee back ...

It was Eichmann who inspired Hannah Arendt's phrase ‘the banality of evil’. A career civil servant in Nazi Germany, he was put in charge of administering the ‘Final Solution’ and organised the seizure ...

In the autumn of 1467 the governor of Iceland, Björn Þorleifsson, was troubled. He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not ...

July 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the short-lived ‘English’ constitution in Sicily. It is often forgotten that during the Napoleonic Wars the island was continuously occupied by Britain for ...