In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...

In conclusion, Hölscher suggests that the images of the symposium and the diver in the Paestum tomb provide a powerful ...

The Indefatigable Asa Briggs: A Biography by Adam Sisman is a detailed portrait of that voluminous chronicler of Victorian ...

On 9 October 1676 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek – the ‘Father of Microbiology’ – presented his findings to the Royal Society.

The lifelong rivalry of two early modern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

In the course of the 15th to the 17th centuries yet another Western reading of the curse of Ham arose as the result of the ...

Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English ...

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Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and Christianity itself. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman ...

It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...

This invokes many references to architectural details from Homer’s account of Odysseus’ eventual homecoming: the threshold, ...

In 1229 the people of Dunstable declared that they would rather go to hell than submit in a dispute over taxes. This was not mere rhetoric: their clash over tolls was with the town’s priory, and they ...