a Curiosity to taste the Juice, or Matter contain’d in one of the little Cystis’s or Glands of the same, which he did by ...

In Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, Matthias Egeler follows the huldufólk from the wild places of ...

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Unreason reigned supreme in Zurich on 5 February 1916 as Dada made its debut at the Cabaret Voltaire. B y February 1916 Lenin was staying in a shabby quarter of Zurich. He lived next to a butcher’s on ...

The annexation of Cyprus was more than another milestone in Roman expansion – it was a showcase of political theatre. In the ...

I n the 1820s London was the largest city in the world. With more than a million inhabitants, it lay at the heart of an ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...

Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than ...

Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding goes where few historians dare: south of ...

British servicemen overseas bought sex, sometimes in brothels run by the British army. In the 1970s they began to talk about it.

Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James Romm looks for hope amid the sound and fury surrounding the great orator of ancient Athens.