The remarkable fall of absinthe: from 19th-century ‘Green Fairy’ to scourge of society.

On 10 December 1948, after months of negotiation led by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ...

Between 1949 and 1966 the Communist state co-opted the medium for propaganda, and publishing of lianhuanhua boomed. New ...

The mystery of what happened to the Marie Celeste gripped me as a child. It’s nice to have some mysteries in life though. Lucy Noakes is Rab Butler Chair in Modern History at the University of Essex ...

Helen Castor is author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Allen Lane) ...

William Strickland died on 8 December 1598. He was said to have introduced the turkey to England, but the truth followed him ...

In Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles, Andrew Ziminski deconstructs the humble parish ...

December 7th, 1941 – in the words of President Franklin Roosevelt’s stirring war message to Congress, ‘ … a date that will live in infamy’ – marks the devastating Japanese naval air raid on Pearl ...

'They were not the stuff of which bureaucrats are made' wrote one historian of the conquistadors with heroic understatement The men who were sent to America to extend the Spanish Empire were, by ...

Who were the women who fought the decisive battle against racial segregation in the American South?