The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...

The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at ...

As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.

The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.

A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest ...

American air raids on Japan’s capital burned the city in March 1945, killing 80,000 people in one night alone. ‘Had to be ...

The persecution began on 23 February 303. It was the feast of Terminus, the god of boundaries – chosen, Lactantius says, ‘so ...

More than 100,000 people took up arms across the Holy Roman Empire in the spring of 1525. What drove them? And why were they ultimately crushed?

The Campo de’ Fiori, near the spot where Julius Caesar was murdered, is Rome’s marketplace and also the place where heretics were executed. It was there that the faggots were piled high for the ...

Almost everyone in Old Gromyki in Belorussia in 1909 took their surname from the village’s name and were called Gromyko. So were more than 250 families in New Gromyki not far away. For practical ...