Buddhism: A Journey Through History by Donald S. Lopez Jr. swiftly soon loses sight of the Buddha himself. Is that a bad ...

How did early modern millers get their bad reputations? B y the end of the medieval period millers had poor reputations.

From imported plant species to water pollution, Britain’s 19th century wool trade transformed the world. I n the early 1910s ...

Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England by Martyn Percy takes the British Empire’s church militant to task. Is ...

In late April 1555 London erupted with joy at the rumour that Queen Mary I – ‘Bloody Mary’ – had finally given birth to a son. The whole city celebrated. According to the Venetian ambassador Giovanni ...

It was in February 1755 that William Hogarth made the first – and, as it was to turn out, much the more fortunate – of his two major expeditions into the field of political satire. Hitherto he had ...

In 1966 and 1967 a group of left-wing intellectuals and radical activists, recruited by the nonagenarian philosopher Bertrand Russell, constituted themselves into a self-proclaimed ‘tribunal’ to try ...

The Nazi camps at Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen were liberated on 11 and 15 April 1945 respectively. In the week that followed, graphic photographs and descriptions of the horrors found by Allied ...