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 ...

The island of Singapore at the foot of the Malay peninsula originally came under British control in 1819. With a fine harbour on the sea route between India and China, it became a major port and in ...

In medieval Europe beavers were hunted extensively, which led, by the 12th and 13th centuries, to their extinction in England and Wales, and in Denmark by the tenth century. The animals were killed ...

Are beavers beasts or fish? For medieval philosophers, this was an important question with implications for the dining table.

Tool of social control or check on tyranny? The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki crafts a history for the herd. Rulers misleading their people, from the Discussions of Varro by Maïtre ...

Geoffrey Parker is Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History at the Ohio State ...

He was known for his prodigious output of classy adventure stories, historical novels and biographies, which he wrote while working at high-powered jobs that carried him to the peerage as Lord ...

The body of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, the most famous name in Soviet Russian cinema, was found on the floor of his Moscow flat on the morning of February 11th, 1948. He had died of a severe ...

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing brings folklore’s most famous double act out of the shadowy realm of legend ...