A fter months of diplomatic wrangling, national security reviews, and political infighting, on 20 January 2026 the UK ...

Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy by Carol Chillington Rutter is a case study of the archetypal early modern ...

The death-knell of the Chartist movement in Britain sounded on what was meant to be its day of triumph. In a year when thrones tottered and regimes quailed as revolutions broke out all over Europe, ...

Cecil’s clause did not detail any line of succession, but was instead an interregnum clause. Highly detailed, it outlined a ...

T he thing I’d like most in the world’, says the reader in Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (1979), ‘is to make clocks run backwards.’ And underst ...

Faisal Devji takes the last approach, focusing on what he sees as a global transformation in the way the term Islam was used ...

Why are you a historian of the pre-modern Balkans and Turkey? I was born in Bulgaria, but as an undergraduate in the UK I ...

The art world was in ferment in the late 19th century. In Paris and Vienna radical ideas were everywhere. But in the newly founded kingdom of Italy things were different. ‘Who ever in Italy spoke or ...

‘Though separated by ten thousand leagues of clouds and waves, our territories are as it were close to each other.’ These were the words with which the retired but de facto ruler of Japan, Tokugawa ...

E dith-Matilda or Matilda II of England is best remembered as ‘Good Queen Maud’, the wife of Henry I and patron of the 12th ...

A guide to the key moments in the history of the Crusades.