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

On 23 November 1929 Nigeria’s women rose against the colonial authorities, demanding a return to traditional values and the ejection of the British. T o the British officials in Nigeria they were the ...

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

What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours? A t 8.23am on the ...

Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?

T he sums are eye-watering. In 991 the English king Æthelred paid the Vikings £10,000 to stop them sacking the east coast of England. Three years later a sum variously recorded as £16,000 or £22,000 ...

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

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

Gina Anne Tam is Associate Professor of History and Co-Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Trinity University, San Antonio.

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

Thanks to Joseph Goebbels, the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst luxuriated in a massive budget for the dramatised documentary he shot in occupied Prague during the autumn of 1942. Commissioned to ...

Omar G. Encarnación is Charles Flint Kellogg Professor of Politics at Bard College and author of Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) ...