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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The siege of Mafeking lasted seven months from October 1899, when the little town was surrounded by a Boer force of some 5,000 men under a redoubtable leader, Piet Cronje. The British garrison ...

The Light Cavalry—smartly uniformed Philadelphia gentlemen—met George Washington’s carriage at the banks of the Skuylkill and escorted him into the city. Bells pealed; along the brick walks, and from ...

For all the pages printed about recent politics and politicians in Westminster, this is the first book about the building itself to be published in over twenty years. Illustrated with newly ...