Chandos had gained his wealth and title through government service and he invested in many projects and schemes; during the ...

‘Comedy in the Country, Tragedy in London’, Thomas Rowlandson, 29 May 1807. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

Ancient Greek reflections on imperial power have unsettling resonance in the geopolitics of Donald Trump.

Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600 by A. Tunç Şen follows the fortunes ...

Over the course of the following two days, various local men who spoke with the journalist obligingly pointed out other unmarried mothers who lived in their communities, some of whom had prodigious ...

Y ou have to know the angel is there before you can see him. He is hidden around a corner, a carving set high up on an ...

An army of help accompanied wealthy British sightseers on their 18th-century sojourns across the Continent. What was it like to travel as a servant on the Grand Tour?

William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament transformed the English language, but the text itself was almost erased.

St Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture, but in the US its parades have always been political.

A quiet, shy man, the unfortunate John Byng was no coward – he faced his death with cool courage – but he seems to have been too cautious, passive and defeatist for command in the British navy. He ...

In school we learn there are 360 degrees in a circle, but where did the 360 come from? When it is pointed out that the Babylonians counted to base-60, rather than base-10 as we do, people often ask if ...

The famous story about Pope Gregory I, before he became pope, seeing some fair-haired English boys in a slave-market in Rome and saying, ‘Not Angles, but angels’ appeared in the first biography of him ...