As rude rhymes and rumours threatened reputations, the Elizabethan government attempted to regulate barbed language.

On 27 July MPs filed into Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons to cast the first ever votes for a Conservative leader.

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women and God’s Own Gentlewoman bring the real world of ...

The Cold War forged new international relationships in which physical distance seemed overcome by ideological proximity. In ...

Collingwood and Nelson went to Nicaragua to fight ashore, the Spaniards as well as the French having decided to aid the ...

The ballad, then, underscores the sensational, multimedia nature of the Logroño auto de fe, which laid bare a nightmarish ...

Meant to live a life of perfect peacefulness and contemplation, in reality monks were human and fallible. How violent could ...

No Scottish clan is as controversial as the Campbells. Yet, says Ian Bradley, the opening of its Argyll Mausoleum offers a chance to re-assess a contentious past. After years of service in the West ...

The British Library’s manuscript collection is founded on that amassed by the antiquarian Robert Cotton in the early 17th century. Gifted to the nation in 1701, it was stored at Essex House on the ...

No piece of furniture made by Thomas Sheraton has ever been identified, and doubts have even been expressed about whether he made any, but few furniture-makers signed their work in those days and he ...

As historians do not fail to point out, it was not a single war that lasted for a hundred years, but a sporadic succession of wars on the same theme. Apart from naval engagements and coastal raids, it ...