On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of ...

In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...

O n the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a ...

On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its own historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...