To the Ottomans, who took it in the 15th century, it was ‘infidel Smyrna’, the last Christian majority city in Asia. There ...

In Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen, Mary Hollingsworth helps the pragmatic queen escape her ...

Like Lalande, many writers argued by analogy, a rhetorical technique that then punched considerable weight. Fuelled by ...

Shipwrecks are an easily overlooked material legacy of the Second World War, but they are rising to the surface as diplomatic ...

Bard romance? Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh sets the stage for the next wave of accessible queer histories.

George Eliot’s Middlemarch . Shakespeare’s Richard II. To find the copy of the bill that MPs were debating in Parliament in ...

Outposts of Diplomacy: A History of the Embassy by G.R. Berridge shows us that debates about the role of the ambassador are ...

The forge of the Tower of London was constantly ablaze in summer 1346. England was at war with France, so, in addition to the Tower’s usual function as mint and prison, the royal fortress now served ...