The Scientific Revolution put an end to beliefs that were once considered rational but now seem bizarre. If we want to understand why, we need to look at the increasing importance of the ‘fact’, says David Wootton.
Keith Laybourn traces the emergence of the Labour Party, its highs and lows and wonders if its forward march is now halted.
When India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain in 1947, the region’s Princely States – including tiny Sikkim – became pawns in South Asia’s great power politics.
The mathematician and pioneering computer programmer was born on 10 December 1815.
Juliet Gardiner discusses a new exhibition on the experiences of children in the Second World War, which opens at the Imperial War Museum on March 18th.
The powerful influence exercised by Thomas, Lord Wharton, before the Reform Act of 1832.
How far did Napoleon’s Corsican childhood and his father’s role in the island’s brief period of autonomy influence his later life?
A three-month frost fair began on 24 November 1715.
The civilisation that arose in the Indus valley around 5,000 years ago was only discovered in the early 20th century. Andrew Robinson looks at what we know about this extraordinary culture.
From Aristotle to El Alamein, via the Silk Road and Charlemagne's vast empire, ten leading historians tell us about their best books from 2015.
