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 ...

Writing from the safety of exile in eastern Tennessee, in the late 1850s the fiery Irish nationalist John Mitchel published a series of articles in his proslavery newspaper the Southern Citizen. In ...

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

As a boy in military school, Charles Barbier de La Serre (1767-1841) was taught that war was a noble profession in which victories are won by intelligence and valour. As a man, he would come to learn ...

Born a sickly baby in Tokyo, Hirohito would grow up to enjoy or endure a reign of 62 years, the longest in Japanese history. His mother was the Princess Sadako, who had been married at 16 almost a ...

Orson Welles created a sensation in 1938 with a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds that reported a Martian invasion of New Jersey. The programme broke into the previous broadcast, ...