As an integrated system of politics, economy and religion evolved in Europe around the year 1000, the figure of the Virgin Mary – so central to the lives of monks and nuns – became the core of a widely shared, though highly varied, European identity, says Miri Rubin.
The most influential of 19th-century Russian wits was born on 31 March 1809.
Richard Cavendish remembers Israel's own Iron Lady, who became Prime Minister on March 17th 1969
The famous London store opened to the public on March 15th, 1909.
As a major conference on the nature of liberty opens, David Marquand questions the free and democratic legacy that British history has bequeathed to the country and citizens of today.
What happened when a philosopher, an artist and a ruthless warrior – all giants of the Renaissance – met on campaign in northern Italy? Paul Strathern explains.
Mark Bryant on how French cartoonists of the 1870s responded to national humiliation at the hands of a beligerent Prussia.
Juliet Gardiner looks at recent publications marking the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s most famous work and the bicentenary of his birth
Richard Cavendish remembers the first Native American hero, who died on 17 February 1909.
Richard Cavendish remembers the birth of Birth of the First Earl of Clarendon on February 18, 1609.
