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While science and medicine advance, myths around menstruation persist.

The medieval court of William Rufus, son of William the Conqueror, was known as a ‘brothel of male prostitutes’.

The impact and long-term legacy of Uruguay’s progressive leader. 

Who was Catherine Parr’s first husband? Who was the last Aztec ruler?

A new cultural history of Sicily, the key to the Mediterranean.

Signed at the height of the Second World War, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.

The correspondence between Mary Hamilton and the future George IV is often seen as evidence of a harmless crush in the Georgian court. It was nothing of the sort. 

Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind on the ‘renegade province’. How Chinese is Taiwan?