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

The Anglican vicar, astronomer, and orientalist George Costard wrote an impassioned letter to his fellow Oxford clergyman, Thomas Shaw, on 2 March 1747. In it, he furiously denounced the claim that ...

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.

In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could the Parsis rely on British support?

Doctor Peter Chamberlen was summoned to a meeting with the College of Physicians on 28 August 1634 to explain a proposal he had lately made to the king for a new organisation of midwives – a document ...

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

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 ...

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

After the Flood, Noah’s sons were repurposed to support a new worldview justifying racial hierarchy and slavery.