Wives for the settlers at Jamestown by William Ludwell Sheppard, 1876. New York Public Library. Public Domain.

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain, Sam Wetherell discovers a city of slavery, ships, soccer, and socialism, whose ...

Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International History at LSE. His latest book is The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 ...

The masculinity that Gerald represented, and that Peter was suggesting, was as far removed as possible from the secular ...

Arsenic was a hidden killer in Victorian homes, but it also played a large part in the British economy. Which comes first: ...

The young student’s name was Louis Braille, and though his name would forever be linked to the tactile writing system for the ...

Tsuda was a decorated veteran of the Satsuma Rebellion. He was an ultra-nationalist; his crime was ‘loyalty run mad’, one ...

Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. Is there more to the story?