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 ...

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

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

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] ...

How one company opened an entire sub-continent to economic and political development, with huge ramifications for India, Britain, and the world. Between 1709 and the mid-19th century the East India ...

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 ...

The keel of the most famous ship in the history of the Royal Navy was laid down in the Old Single Dock (now the Victory Dock) at Chatham Dockyard in Kent. Present with Admiralty officials at the ...

The first of three articles that proved the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery was published in The Times on 16 August 1921. Jewish people have been blamed for everything from the Black ...

As Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of liberty to an enemy within. On 14 July 1789 an insurgent Paris crowd ...