As well as Latin Christian victories, it described moments of suffering and struggle – and two occasions in which crusaders ...

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet ...

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In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash ...

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Anna Whitelock offers a panoramic view of Jacobean foreign policy ...

In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

Character, courage and the absence of her family made Mary Kingsley a pioneer explorer of West Africa. Her doctor father, George Kingsley, a younger brother of the much better known novelist and ...

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet Union’s undercover intelligence gathering. America, América: A New History of ...

As Nasser moved to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was forced to choose between faith and ...

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term were nothing if not controversial. This was especially the case in the United States’ northern neighbour where his talk of Canada becoming the ‘51st ...

It is night in a small room behind a post office in late 18th-century Paris. Six clerks work by candlelight, each moving with practised speed, first pressing letter seals into small balls of ...

Overworked and haunted by hallucinations, Hugh Miller wrote a note to his wife Lydia and shot himself at some time between late 23 December and early Christmas Eve 1856. One of his last acts had been ...