It was notable that when Iran decided – unusually – to flex some hard power towards Israel in April 2024, a number of key ...

Pilgrimage is not meant to be easy, but it remains a popular pursuit – even for non-believers.

To the British officials in Nigeria they were the Aba Riots. But the Igbo and Ibibio women involved called them Ogu Umunwaanyi, the Women’s War. There had been tremors of discontent in 1925: in April ...

Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden ...

National security during the Second World War was threatened by the ‘enemy within’ – working-class women, suspected of ...

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The real female Victorian detectives were every bit as bold as their fictional counterparts – and far more prevalent than we ...

In its first two centuries of existence Christianity witnessed the persecution of many of its members by officials of the Roman Empire; the causes of these persecutions have been and continue to be ...

British agents of empire saw their actions in India through the texts of their classical educations. They looked for ...

Customarily, the name ‘Machiavelli’ was a synonym for the devil. The myth of the corrupt immorality of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) has lasted for many centuries, the description ‘Machiavellian’ ...