Mildred Allen Butler offers a profile of a renowned swordsman, student of philosophy, literary critic, social satirist and story-teller; Cyrano de Bergerac expressed his views of life in his ingenious account of expeditions to the Empires of the Sun and Moon.
David Rubinstein describes a change in social habits when the new bicycle replaced the old Penny Farthing.
Jan Read traces how Spain's people, their royals, and their most famous museum have developed together.
The origins of soccer can be found among the people, not the privileged who sought to define it in the 19th century.
Though the massacre of captives aboard the British slave ship Zong scandalised society, the pace of reform was slow.
For nearly 400 years, London's citizens poured down from the streets to hold a frost fair upon the solid ice of the Thames.
During the Cold War, 224 nuclear weapons were denotated at Novaya Zemlya in the Soviet Union’s remote Arctic north. Only with the collapse of the USSR in 1989 did the true scale become known.
Nicholas Lane examines how, during the century before the London Stock Exchange acquired a building of its own in 1773, brokers met and transacted business in the coffee houses of Exchange Alley
Nicholas Lane discusses the reasons of business and war that led to the establishment of a national bank in London in 1694.
After the upheavals of 1688, England’s shifting social order needed new ways to define itself. A taste for fine claret became one such marker of wealth and power, as Charles Ludington explains.
