Since 1708 there has been vicious competition over the Spanish treasure galleon San José, its cargo, and, now, its sunken remains.

The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of ...

The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved incredibly popular in the medieval German-speaking world. How did he get there ...

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of ...

From royal waltzes to arms contracts, Britain’s relationship with Tito’s Yugoslavia was a blend of spectacle and strategy, ...

The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of Travancore discovered. The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved ...

But it wasn’t an engraving. It was a sheet of finely woven silk – a thousand threads to the inch – so subtle and detailed ...

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) is a profoundly – even unsettlingly – historical novel. Granted, it doesn’t look ...

In the archive of Carl Hagenbeck’s Tierpark (Animal Park), which opened in Hamburg in 1907, there is a remarkable photograph of a few thousand tortoises in two large pens. They were not an exhibit, ...

In exile, Hortense Mancini captivated 17th-century Europe – and king Charles II – with her beauty and charm. But her path to freedom was mired in scandal.

In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems. I n 1563 ...

John Womack’s Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. Just before the Big Bang. I realise there are risks attached. In 1968 Jack ...