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

On 23 November 1929 Nigeria’s women rose against the colonial authorities, demanding a return to traditional values and the ...

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 ...

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

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

On November 23rd, 1499, Perkin Warbeck was drawn on a hurdle from the Tower to Tyburn to be hanged. A native of Tournai, his six-year masquerade as Richard, Duke of York had come to an end two years ...

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

Hawley Harvey Crippen was 48 years old when he was hanged in London’s Pentonville prison at 9am on November 23rd, 1910. He had spent the previous hour with the Roman Catholic prison chaplain and two ...

The rapid surrender of Japan in 1945 certainly suggested that the United States possessed the most decisive of weapons. Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less ...

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