Mexico’s disgraced saviour General Antonio López de Santa Anna completed his comeback on 9 March 1839 as the Pastry War came to a close.

L ong before she died, the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner was horrified to realise that she was being written out of history ...

[That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St Thomas and St Bartholomew – the alms which King Alfred had vowed to send there when they besieged the raiding ...

The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without foundation. For as one writer remarked a generation after 1066, ‘French customs ...

Strikingly Similar: Plagiarism and Appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbots by Roger Kreuz finds that copyright isn’t always a ...

The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald by Walter Reid finds the romance behind Labour’s great betrayer.

Strategically important during the Second World War, US soldiers could not wait to leave Greenland. I n April 1941, as it moved closer to direct involvement in the Second World War, the United States ...

Edward Lee was born in Kent in 1482 and lived a rather unremarkable life as a priest until the age of 35. In 1517, however, he made the decision to visit the small university town of Louvain, a few ...

An answer is suggested by a reminiscence of Malcolm covering a Chemistry lesson, a subject about which he took some pride in parading his almost total ignorance. ‘Like the ancients’, he began, ‘I ...

In 1563 Elizabeth Flynte, a servant from Haselor, Warwickshire, described the extra-marital activities of her mistress to the church court of the Lichfield diocese: He come in here this night, ...

On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the cinema. The woman was seven months pregnant and was walking slowly when a grey Volvo stopped ...

By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 had seen Mexico concede land to the US. This concession came with the ...