What’s the most exciting field in history today? The continuing retrieval of forgotten voices.’ ...

In the 19th century nascent copyright law allowed brands to use fine art in their advertising. It raised prestige, sales, and controversy.

The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins charts the ascent of an idea from prehistory to popular culture.

On 6 October 1802 Ludwig van Beethoven confessed his despair at the loss of his hearing in the Heiligenstadt Testament.

Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four by Susan Pedersen wonders whether a radical relationship might offer inspiration for a ...

Wikipedia turns 25 this year. Its success was not a given and reveals much about our changing relationship with information online.

In 1938 a sensational spy trial exposed a Nazi plot to seduce and blackmail US officers. Despite America’s technological might, counterintelligence had been slow on the uptake. In November 1938 a New ...

In 480 BC a vast Persian army under king Xerxes crossed into Greece. The invasion was triggered by Athens’ defeat of a Persian army at Marathon ten years earlier, but this was a far bigger force and ...

At the Fürstengraben, 1779. From ‘Jena from its origins to the present day’, published 1850, British Library HMNTS 10260.d.42. A quiet university town in the middle of Germany, Jena was, as Andrea ...

American history has always been decided by its people, as England learned when it attempted to impose harsh trade restrictions on its new colony in the 17th century. Despite what the behaviour of its ...

Between 1714 and 1737, Robin Hood’s reputation took a beating. In criminal biography, the most popular genre of literature, Robin was portrayed as a cold-hearted killer. It is best to briefly digress, ...

Before the Spanish conquest, the history of the Aztec Empire was recorded orally and with hieroglyphs. In danger of being lost or forgotten, Indigenous historians began to write it down. In Mexico ...