The Finnish Club War
The Cudgel War broke out on 25 November 1596, in Kyrö, South Ostrobothnia.
Volume 72 Issue 11 November 2022
Death of Thomas Tallis
One of the first – and greatest – composers of English Protestant church music died on 23 November 1585.
The ‘Jena Set’
The quiet German town that formed the backdrop for the first German Romantic movement.
On the Spot: Jessey J.C. Choo
‘History is an illusion, as with everything that changes.’
For the Love of Manuscripts
Are people who lived in very different times and places united in their shared love of manuscripts?
Sign of the Times
Speech, rather than hearing, has been at the heart of the long history of deaf exclusion.
In Bed with the Tudors
Did Tudor beds have footboards? The conundrum illustrates the challenges of early modern history.
The Army that Walked on Water
For the Swedish king Charles X Gustav, the freezing winter of 1658 provided a unique opportunity: to march across the ice and create a Scandinavian superkingdom.
For God (and us)
The histories of sixteen great cathedrals from Hagia Sophia to Santa Maria del Fiore.
The Computer in the Aegean
The Antikythera Mechanism is ingenious, intricate and highly sophisticated. But what is it?