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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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

In the days following the sudden death, aged 49, of Robert Clive – ‘Clive of India’ – on 22 November 1774, rumours as to how it had happened spread fast. Despite having previously received knowledge ...