The past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past
The Search for Latitude Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral lay unconscious on the mountainside. ‘I fell down’, he wrote later, ‘and remained a...
The Second World War was probably the greatest human catastrophe the world has ever seen. Historians have always struggled to find words that can...
58 years ago JFK gave one of his best speeches. Speaking to huge crowds in West Berlin, he called on the free world to stand by Berliners divided by...
Waterloo and the Peninsular War: it’s a familiar story, isn’t it? Heavy artillery, sieges, muskets and cannons. A young man chosen to be the first...
Nicholas Crane
Measuring the earth was not only mathematically challenging, but a physical feat too.
We should look back at the lessons given at the end of the most traumatic event in human history.
President Kennedy's speech 58 years ago still resonates today.
Katy Moran
Camp followers of Napoleonic armies were more than just baggage carriers.
John Shovlin
The 'Second Hundred Years War' during the 18th century could have come to a premature end if corporate interests had won through.
Was this battle an English or Welsh victory? The casualties suggest the latter.
Lucy Jane Santos
Radium had an unlikely role in changing the fashion from pocket to wrist watches.
Emma Rothschild
Where does ancestry sit within history? They are closely related, so says the author of a new book on a French family covering 300 years.
Emily Midorikawa
Something of a celebrity in the Victorian period, Georgina Weldon took on the legal and medical establishment, and won.
