The discovery of the molecular structure of benzene by Kathleen Lonsdale helped to reveal the secrets of carbon-based life, ...

Master of Rome by David Potter, The Roman World War by Giusto Traina, and Livia by Caitlin C. Gillespie – tell us about ...

Political Power in Africa and the Coup d’État by Ruth First is a timely reissue from the first wave of Africa’s ‘coup ...

In the 19th century nascent copyright law allowed brands to use fine art in their advertising. It raised prestige, sales, and controversy.

Incognito investigative journalism was a Victorian invention. What explained its overnight success?

It has been 60 years since the Aberfan disaster of 1966, but memories of corporate failings and injustice persist.

As the Thirty Years War ravaged the Continent, news reached England of strange phenomena. What did it portend?

What’s the most exciting field in history today? The continuing retrieval of forgotten voices.’ ...

CIA and MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Dawn of the Cold War by Stephen Long discovers a farcical attempt to ...

In 480 BC a vast Persian army under king Xerxes crossed into Greece. The invasion was triggered by Athens’ defeat of a Persian army at Marathon ten years earlier, but this was a far bigger force and ...

At the Fürstengraben, 1779. From ‘Jena from its origins to the present day’, published 1850, British Library HMNTS 10260.d.42. A quiet university town in the middle of Germany, Jena was, as Andrea ...

Writing of a sculpture in Renaissance style menacingly hemmed in by paintings by Matisse and others in Room VII at the Salon d’Automne in Paris in 1905, the critic Louis Vauxcelles, who would later ...