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Revolutionary soldier or tyrannical emperor? The question is as pertinent now as when Bonaparte died in exile on remote Saint Helena in 1821.

In the aftermath of the Reformation, the authority of the pope depended ever more upon the will of the people.

Peter Abelard, lover of Heloise, died on 21 April 1142.

Indigenous peoples in the West of the United States continued to be held in bondage long after the abolition of plantation slavery in the South.

The multi-layered complexity of ‘Europe’s smallest successor state’ between 1918 and 1921.

How the humble radio station organised resistance, inspired the masses and countered powerful settler propaganda.

The story of a young William Blake warning Thomas Paine of impending danger is one of the great myths of English Romanticism. But did it happen?

It is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four distinguished scholars consider its value – and its future.

A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London.

The tension between colonial government and the work of missionaries characterised British colonialism in Nigeria.