The Kings and Queens: An Irreverent Cartoon History of the British Monarchy by Kenneth Baker (Thames and Hudson 192 pp.) The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III by Diana ...

The death-knell of the Chartist movement in Britain sounded on what was meant to be its day of triumph. In a year when thrones tottered and regimes quailed as revolutions broke out all over Europe, ...

Why are you a historian of science? I read physics, but the history of science is more fun: you have to get the facts right, but you decide how to interpret them. The first demonstrations of ...

As Christianity spread, it carried Catherine of Siena’s legacy to the Americas. Her asceticism inspired Rose of Lima, Kateri ...

Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell illuminates the inner life and passions of James VI ...

Scholars and Their Kin: Historical Explorations, Literary Experiments, edited by Stéphane Gerson, draws historians closer to the home.

The morning after Edward VII was crowned King of Great Britain and Emperor of India in Westminster Abbey, Canon Welldon treated the colonial troops who had attended the ceremony to a valedictory ...

In the early 1910s a young woman set out every day to walk the river banks near Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Ida Hayward was recording something extraordinary: the arrival in the UK of hundreds ...

Early on in this masterful account of Buddhism’s emergence and spread throughout the world, Donald S. Lopez cautions his readers that the very existence of a historical Buddha remains subject to ...