Bard romance? Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh sets the stage for the next wave of accessible queer histories.

In Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen, Mary Hollingsworth helps the pragmatic queen escape her ‘black legend’.

The villains of British history, the Normans can be a difficult sell. But going off script has its rewards.

Who were the female blacksmiths of medieval England? 

Outposts of Diplomacy: A History of the Embassy by G.R. Berridge shows us that debates about the role of the ambassador are as old as the institution itself.

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That the republic was an absolute failure and the Restoration inevitable.’

Shipwrecks are an easily overlooked material legacy of the Second World War, but they are rising to the surface as diplomatic issues.

America’s southern states were once strongholds for the Democratic Party. In 1952, Eisenhower decided to win them over.