On 1 July 1903 a publicity stunt for a sporting paper cycled into history as the first Tour de France. By the late 19th century the relationship between art and Italy felt consigned to history. On 30 ...
Rider Haggard after hours spent digging on Bradenham Heath in Norfolk searching for the gibbet cage in which the body of the ...
Who is the most overderrated person in history? Henry VIII. Nasty piece of work and not as clever as he thought he was.’ ...
The legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable ...
Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert looks beyond the cities to the coffee and cotton that fuelled a global market.
In 1776 the Founding Father John Adams stated that future commemorations of the United States’ independence ‘ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, ...
On 1 July 1903 a publicity stunt for a sporting paper cycled into history as the first Tour de France. Cycle racing was all the rage. The Paris-Brest-Paris race was launched in 1891. (Its inaugural ...
Robert Peel was 62 when he died. He had sat in the Commons for more than 40 years and had held high office many times. As Home Secretary in 1829 he had created the ‘Peelers’ or ‘Bobbies’, the ...
Chaucer’s meadows are romantic landscapes of leisurely frolicking. But for medieval haymakers July meant a month of hard graft. For the past few years the first Saturday in July has been marked by ...
In 1514, as the new dome of St Peter’s Basilica began to rise above Rome, one of its canons, Camilio Porti, composed an oration to Pope Leo X. It celebrated the victories of the viceroy of Portuguese ...
Hoping to weaken the rebels’ cause, Britain offered freedom to enslaved people who joined the British army. At the end of the American Revolutionary War that promised freedom had to be honoured – but ...
That the United States declared its independence in July 1776 is well known; that the British state commissioned, but never published, a counter-declaration is not. The American War of Independence ...
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