In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that chance rather than characters shaped the clash between ...

Hitler’s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht by Douglas Carl Peifer surfaces the stories of those who sought to sit ...

It was Pierre Trudeau who famously summed up Canada’s ‘American dilemma’ when speaking to an audience at the National Press ...

As Nasser moved to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was forced to choose between faith and ...

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

In the febrile political climate of early modern Europe, letters – and the information they contained – were dangerous.

Queenship was transformed in the early Middle Ages, as power came to be derived not just from marriage, but from God.

When Samuel Pepys’ diary was first published 200 years ago it was an instant hit, but rumours soon spread about what had been cut and why.

In March 1873, George Augustus Sala – newspaper columnist and founder of London’s Savage Club – published an article titled ‘Philosophy of Grand Hotels’ in Belgravia magazine. Imagining the capital ...

Pizza is the world’s favourite fast food. We eat it everywhere – at home, in restaurants, on street corners. Some three billion pizzas are sold each year in the United States alone, an average of 46 ...

‘What historical topic have I changed my mind on? The collapse of the Soviet Union. I used to think it was a relatively peaceful event.’ When I chose to study the Cold War I believed it would continue ...