F or me, the standout book of 2025 is John Blair’s Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World ...

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for ...

As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire.

Christianity at the Crossroads: The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era by David N. Hempton peers ...

When putting the Middle Ages on screen, drama is no substitute for the historical sources.

Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery by Miranda Kaufman follows the money to reveal how Britain’s women of ...

I n the archive of Carl Hagenbeck’s Tierpark (Animal Park), which opened in Hamburg in 1907, there is a remarkable photograph ...

The man known as Henry Pu Yi led one of the strangest lives of the 20th century. The last of the Manchu emperors, he succeeded to the throne as a boy of two in 1908. Three years later a revolution ...

One bright July morning in 1849 the streets of Venice were crowded with people celebrating the Festa of the Madonna della Salute. Although the Republic was at war, and the city actually under siege by ...

'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 ...

The original Crystal Palace was the centrepiece of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Built in what is now Kensington Gardens, it was an astonishing prefabricated construction, created on ...

The week-long hurricane that struck the south of England and the English Channel at the end of the month was beyond anything in living memory. John Evelyn described it in his diary as ‘not to be ...