Ancient Egyptian monuments are covered in graffiti made by visitors from Cyprus. Why were they there, and what does it mean?

The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed explores one financial panic amongst many.

In the 1960s Anglo-French efforts to collaborate on a new combat aircraft – the BAC/Dassault AFVG – hit turbulence.

A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das and A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England ...

The shocking murder of its royal family in June 2001 changed the course of Nepal’s history. On the massacre’s 25th ...

History of a Tangled Relationship by Stefan Creuzberger discovers the dynamic that defines Europe. On 27 February 2022, three days into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

In hiding and soon to be sentenced to death in absentia, Eugène Pottier completed a poem In June 1871 that still serves as the rallying cry for the Left worldwide: L’Internationale. Its themes of ...

Christina of Sweden had a blazing vitality, intelligence and wit that made her the wonder of Europe. Her father was Gustavus II Adolphus, the colossus who bestrode the North, and he had her reared ...

Roger Hudson describes the destruction during the Paris Commune of the memorial to Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz in 1805. One of the entrances to the Place Vendôme at the heart of fashionable Paris ...

It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding the bat with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Since the publication of Stoker’s novel, the connection has ...

Scant attention is given in the official histories of Operation Overlord to the massive propaganda operation which accompanied the initial D-day landings and then announced their success to occupied ...

Though he didn't invent it, the guillotine was named for a French doctor, who died on 26 March 1814. The man who gave his name to Madame la Guillotine or The Widow (La Veuve) was born at Saintes in ...