Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us that when it comes to sexuality ...

Between 1949 and 1966 the Communist state co-opted the medium for propaganda, and publishing of lianhuanhua boomed. New ...

On 10 December 1948, after months of negotiation led by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ...

The remarkable fall of absinthe: from 19th-century ‘Green Fairy’ to scourge of society.

William Strickland died on 8 December 1598. He was said to have introduced the turkey to England, but the truth followed him ...

The mystery of what happened to the Marie Celeste gripped me as a child. It’s nice to have some mysteries in life though. Lucy Noakes is Rab Butler Chair in Modern History at the University of Essex ...

Helen Castor is author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Allen Lane) ...

In the racially segregated American South of the 1950s a Black woman sits in the section of a bus reserved for white passengers. Physically and verbally abused by the driver, she is forced off the ...

You never quite know what you’ll find when you open the door to one of England’s many ancient parish churches. Perhaps there will be a glorious, overblown tomb, or perhaps some miraculously preserved ...

The sinking by Japanese aircraft of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in December 1941 and the subsequent loss of Singapore was a grievous blow to British morale. But have historians misunderstood ...