Zaga Christ died on 22 April 1638 leaving Europe no wiser as to the authenticity of the self-proclaimed Ethiopian prince who ...

Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine.

The Roman Empire had two main populations: gods and humans. By its end, there was only one god left. How, and why, did he ...

Teodoro Castro or Iosif Grigulevich? Costa Rica’s ambassador to Yugoslavia was a Soviet spy sent to kill Tito. O n the ...

Renaissance Florence had a problem: it wanted female sex workers, but it also needed to offer them a way out. The solution was a new brothel district – and a nunnery for former prostitutes ...

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World by Edith Hall sees the signs of environmental collapse amid the adventures of Achilles.

The Merovingians have a reputation for long hair and barbarity. Instead, the dynasty, born out of the chaos of civil war, was one of peace, diplomacy, and bureaucracy.

When Bolesław Chrobry, ‘the Brave’, succeeded to the Duchy of Poland in 992 he inherited a state both newly minted and newly Christianised by his father, Mieszko I. But it wasn’t yet a kingdom. At the ...

The son of Thomas Brooke, a wealthy judge in the service of the East India Company, James Brooke was born in Secrore, the European quarter of Benares (also known as Varanasi). He grew up among the ...