A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present by Joep Leerssen looks to art and not politics for the ...

The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz vividly reconstructs the world that produced Wuthering Heights. Are there limits to ...

Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English by Elisabeth van Houts is a sympathetic biography of the woman who would be king.

The first Irish Republican bomb detonated on English soil was not intended as an act of terrorism, but its impact – and death ...

In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war.

Would St Augustine have considered the US attack on Iran a just war? The pope and the vice president are split on the matter.

As ancient Rome was divided by civil war Cicero found himself torn. Caesar was his old adversary, but he was also powerful, and it was politically and personally expedient to support him.

I n August 1944, as the French Resistance fought to liberate Paris, Albert Camus went to see Jean-Paul Sartre at the ...

The Life and Times of Britain’s First Female Cabinet Minister by Nan Sloane illuminates an overlooked trailblazer of the ...

The legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable ...

The Hampton Court Conference opened on January 14th, 1604. The most important product of the conference was the King James Bible. The English Puritans in 1603 had high hopes that the new Scottish king ...

A passage from book 12 of The Odyssey, in Emily Wilson’s acclaimed translation of Homer’s epic, sees the hero Odysseus, known in Latin as Ulysses, warn his men of an impending challenge: She [Circe] ...