Britain’s self-styled ‘Thief-Taker General’ was not all he seemed. On 24 May 1725 Jonathan Wild was finally brought to justice. ‘Jonathan Wild pelted by the Mob on his way to Tyburn’, by Valois.

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

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

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Anna Whitelock offers a panoramic view of Jacobean foreign policy ...

Canada and the US have often been uneasy neighbours; the roots of the latest political flare up can be found in their tangled ...

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

It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding the bat with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Since the publication of Stoker’s novel, the connection has ...

In the early months of 1660 the taciturn West Country soldier George Monck held the fate of the British Isles in his hands. Oliver Cromwell was dead and the British republic had descended into chaos.

When it comes to the end of the Roman Empire three things are certain: death, taxes, and Goths. Were reports of its demise exaggerated? ‘The Sun Rising’ by Anna Whitelock review The Sun Rising: James ...

Alexis de Tocqueville saw, in winter 1831, the Choctaw crossing the Mississippi at Memphis. Among them were the wounded and the sick, newborn babies, elderly people at the point of death. Snow had ...

Father of present-day Europe, Charles, King of the Franks, was one of the most extraordinary of all rulers. Discover the man and the life, 12 centuries after his reign.