Two recent books, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein and Revolutions: A ...

The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution.

The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c.1031-1083: Embodying Conquest by Laura L. Gathagan traces the material legacy of the ...

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism ...

On the morning of 1 February 1524 hundreds of Londoners gathered by the Thames in dreadful anticipation. This day had been a long time coming. Preparations had begun months and, in some cases, years ...

What language did the Romans speak? Latin was used throughout the Roman Empire, but it shared space with a host of other languages and dialects... A stela with Oscan inscription from Pompeii, first ...

When the Nazis occupied Warsaw in September 1939, anti-Jewish laws were immediately promulgated. Among them were laws limiting access to books. Lending libraries were closed in the Jewish quarter and ...

In 1877 H.E. Sullivan, the British representative at the court of the Travancore maharajah, ventured into somewhat delicate territory: the education of the state’s young princes. As was later recorded ...

In 1897 Dr William Thiselton-Dyer, director of the Royal Botanic Garden, attempted to germinate grains of wheat taken from a 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb. The wheat was a gift from E.A. Wallis Budge ...

The Franco-Ottoman alliance, formed in the 1530s between the king of France, François I, and the Turkish ruler of the Ottoman Empire, Kanuni Sultan Süleiman (‘the Magnificent’), was arguably the first ...

The East African groundnuts scheme was postwar Britain’s equivalent of the Millennium Dome. In pursuit of a laudable objective, millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was poured diligently into a sump ...

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