The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins charts the ascent of an idea from prehistory to popular culture.
In the 19th century nascent copyright law allowed brands to use fine art in their advertising. It raised prestige, sales, and controversy.
On 6 October 1802 Ludwig van Beethoven confessed his despair at the loss of his hearing in the Heiligenstadt Testament.
Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four by Susan Pedersen wonders whether a radical relationship might offer inspiration for a ...
It has been 60 years since the Aberfan disaster of 1966, but memories of corporate failings and injustice persist.
What’s the most exciting field in history today? The continuing retrieval of forgotten voices.’ ...
One of King John's most detestable crimes – the starving to death of 22 knights at Corfe Castle – has been surprisingly overlooked by historians. Corfe Castle in Dorset, today a hulking ruin, was in ...
At the Fürstengraben, 1779. From ‘Jena from its origins to the present day’, published 1850, British Library HMNTS 10260.d.42. A quiet university town in the middle of Germany, Jena was, as Andrea ...
In 480 BC a vast Persian army under king Xerxes crossed into Greece. The invasion was triggered by Athens’ defeat of a Persian army at Marathon ten years earlier, but this was a far bigger force and ...
American history has always been decided by its people, as England learned when it attempted to impose harsh trade restrictions on its new colony in the 17th century. Despite what the behaviour of its ...
In 1506 a Portuguese sea-captain called Tristao da Cunha came across a group of six little islands far out in the Atlantic between South Africa and South America. The largest of them, which he named ...
In 1938 a sensational spy trial exposed a Nazi plot to seduce and blackmail US officers. Despite America’s technological might, counterintelligence had been slow on the uptake. In November 1938 a New ...
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