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The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in the 1950s.

In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history the domain of madmen and devils.

The Diver of Paestum: Youth, Eros and the Sea in Ancient Greece by Tonio Hölscher – and translated by Robert Savage – searches beneath the surface for the meaning behind a beguiling fresco.

On 9 October 1676 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek – the ‘Father of Microbiology’ – presented his findings to the Royal Society.

After the Flood, Noah’s sons were repurposed to support a new worldview justifying racial hierarchy and slavery.

The Indefatigable Asa Briggs: A Biography by Adam Sisman is a detailed portrait of that voluminous chronicler of Victorian things.

The lifelong rivalry of two early modern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village invites reflection on half a century of change.

The release of government documents related to the Kennedy assassination will keep scholars busy for years, but will we learn anything new?

For those living on the Greek island of Ithaka, The Odyssey is written all around.