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

The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at Newcastle University. I n the context of American hi ...

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

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

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

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

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

Russell Tarr sees similarities but also important contrasts in the foreign policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

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

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

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

Despite the obvious interest aroused by battle, murder and sudden death, the Wars of the Roses have been astonishingly neglected by modern historians, and even by the more recent historical novelists.