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The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington looks beyond the warming pan to the real Mary of Modena.

In The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 Jonathan Healey holds Juntos and ‘jittery times’ responsible for England’s slide towards civil war.

Best of times or worst of times, how did the ‘greatest event that has happened in the history of man’ – as per Benjamin Disraeli – change the course of what followed?

Pope Leo XIV’s choice of name reveals much about the direction of the Church.

The wine trade in medieval Tunis was lucrative, but it caused a moral quandary for the ruling Hafsids.

Though his relics are reviled, his impact is more keenly felt than ever. Can The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes by William Kelleher Storey find the man for our time?

Life at sea was hard. An early modern ship’s surgeon had to treat not just broken bones but distress and trauma. 

Court-martialled in absentia on 2 August 1940, the Vichy regime confiscated de Gaulle’s property and condemned him to death. 

Malibu’s 1960s Beauty Farm aimed to get a new generation of teenagers marriage-ready

José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas, edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muñiz, collects the works of Cuba's ‘Apostle of Independence’.