The Bayeux Tapestry may be back in England, but it is a Norman artwork. For Anglo-Saxon voices, we need to look elsewhere.

A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos ...

In The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi ...

Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has ...

For those governing Britain’s imperial possessions, sports were a site for what Headlam termed ‘moral training’, a key ...

The legend of Mahatma Gandhi places his non-violent Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience, and Quit India movements at the heart of India’s independence. There's more to the story. Mohandas Gandhi’s ...

On 4 August 1626 three ships dropped anchor in the road off the leeward coast of St Christopher (St Kitts) in the Caribbean. A hundred English settlers rowed ashore, come to make their fortunes in ...

On 25 June 1922 Black activist Marcus Garvey found common cause with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Using violence as a response to racism can both divide and unite communities. This was ...

The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on 28 May 1830, forcing the migration of five Native American nations from their homelands. The removal of the Cherokee, c.1850.

An 11-year-old Glaswegian named James Greenlees unintentionally helped to make history that day in 1865. Run over by a cart in the street, he was taken to the male accident ward at Glasgow Royal ...

In August 1944, as the French Resistance fought to liberate Paris, Albert Camus went to see Jean-Paul Sartre at the Comédie-Française. It was a perilous moment. Now that the German forces were on the ...