On 27 July MPs filed into Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons to cast the first ever votes for a Conservative leader.

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women and God’s Own Gentlewoman bring the real world of medieval women out of the margins.

Meant to live a life of perfect peacefulness and contemplation, in reality monks were human and fallible. How violent could ...

Collingwood and Nelson went to Nicaragua to fight ashore, the Spaniards as well as the French having decided to aid the ...

The ballad, then, underscores the sensational, multimedia nature of the Logroño auto de fe, which laid bare a nightmarish ...

As rude rhymes and rumours threatened reputations, the Elizabethan government attempted to regulate barbed language.

The Cold War forged new international relationships in which physical distance seemed overcome by ideological proximity. In ...

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Corfe Castle in Dorset, today a hulking ruin, was in its day one of the most splendid royal palaces in England, and a particular favourite of King John. The Plantagenet monarch spent more time there ...

One of history’s great journeys began in October 1934 and ended a year later after covering a distance variously estimated at between 3,000 and 8,000 miles across China. Figures for the numbers ...