Cecil’s clause did not detail any line of succession, but was instead an interregnum clause. Highly detailed, it outlined a ...

Faisal Devji takes the last approach, focusing on what he sees as a global transformation in the way the term Islam was used ...

If the present, with its conflicts and uncertainties, is impossible to know, ask Italo Calvino, how can we hope to understand ...

The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History by Caroline Sharples explores the public fascination with the ...

E dith-Matilda or Matilda II of England is best remembered as ‘Good Queen Maud’, the wife of Henry I and patron of the 12th ...

Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989 by Andrea Horbinski reveals the colourful ...

One of the first victims of the Siege of Leningrad was Betty. She had arrived in the city in 1911 and quickly established herself as an important part of her community. On 8 September 1941 – just a ...

British servants on the Grand Tour, the afterlife of the Tyndale Bible, Scotland’s unmarried mothers, the fall of Jerusalem, African princes in the age of slavery, and more. Plus: reviews, opinion, ...

On 19 October 1984 Father Jerzy Popiełuszko was invited to celebrate mass and lead the rosary in a parish in the city of Bydgoszcz, northern Poland. Soon after 9pm the priest, with his driver and ...

The first Europeans known to have climbed Table Mountain were Portuguese seamen under Antonio de Saldanha, whose ships were part of a fleet on its way to India in 1503. They had a fracas with the ...

A guide to the key moments in the history of the Crusades.

In July 1099 Jerusalem fell to the armies of the First Crusade. Amid scenes of slaughter and triumph, Godfrey of Bouillon, duke of Lower Lorraine, and his fellow crusaders claimed the Holy City.