The Conservatives are enduring a crisis of identity and purpose. Not for the first time, the work of the great 18th-century philosopher, Edmund Burke, is seen as offering a path to the party’s reinvention.
The bronze-age city of Mari was second only to Babylon, and the library of tablets it held offers rich insight into all aspects of an intricate political world.
Britain’s entry into the Second World War ushered in a wave of anti-German sentiment, creating strange bedfellows across the political spectrum.
Medieval hermits were the agony aunts of their day.
The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was not the great step forward it is sometimes purported to be.
Michael Flynn, the former US national security adviser, was recently accused of violating the Logan Act of 1799 for his communications with the Russian ambassador. But what is this act, for which no one has ever been convicted and only two people charged?
The real and mythical dangers of the wilderness.
The Lord Protector’s move on Jamaica transformed Britain’s early empire.
One of the 20th-century’s most enduring artworks warns us against the danger of ‘alternative facts’.
In his pursuit of Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell was guided by a prophecy foretelling treason.
