History

'I LOVE THE BOOK... A BRILLIANT READ' Chris Evans, Radio 2 Breakfast ShowALSO OUT NOW: THE MYSTERIUM, the must-have follow-up to The Odditorium'Thi...

Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 18731952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexicos Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished me...

Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early dea...

For people nowadays, the constant exchange of people, goods and ideas and their interaction across wide distances are a part of everyday life. Howe...

The tapping of typewriters first lifted the secrecy around homosexuality, and a vibrant array of voices was soon heard. The publishers of gay magaz...

Orwell''''s Faded Lion traces the history of Britain from the end of the Second World War, during the darkest days of which George Orwell wrote The...

One of the shortest lived and most battle hardened of the 1st Australian Imperial Forces battalions, the 47th was formed in Egypt in 1916 and disba...

Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein a...

The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, p...