The wine trade in medieval Tunis was lucrative, but it caused a moral quandary for the ruling Hafsids.

Court-martialled in absentia on 2 August 1940, the Vichy regime confiscated de Gaulle’s property and condemned him to death.

An early modern ship’s surgeon had to treat not just broken bones but distress and trauma. I n September 1649 ship’s surgeon ...

José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas, edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muñiz, collects the works of Cuba's ...

Hinduism predates colonialism by thousands of years, but in Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu ...

British military engagement in northwest Europe did not pause after Waterloo and resume in 1914. The intervening century saw ...

‘What’s past is prologue’ Shakespeare wrote – but so little is known of his own. There are plenty of theories, each as implausible as the next.

On 25 July 1908 chemistry professor Kikunae Ikeda gave name to an elusive new taste: umami.

I ronically, when we speak about inquisitions, people have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition. But inquisitions into the ...

In October 1929 thousands of members of Britain’s Book Society received a new hardback through the post. Whiteoaks, by an unfamiliar Canadian writer, Mazo de la Roche, was the seventh monthly ‘choice’ ...

How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy alliance between oil, autocracy, and Wahhabism.