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 ...

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 ...

The geologist William Buckland worked through many theories about the creation of Earth and the biblical Flood. None of them were quite right. The Oxford University geologist William Buckland ...

The Bayeux Tapestry may be back in England, but it is a Norman artwork. For Anglo-Saxon voices, we need to look elsewhere. This is shaping up to be the year of the Bayeux Tapestry. From September this ...

Wild celebrations erupted in Washington DC on Saturday, September 7th 1850, when the Bill which made California the thirty-first state of the United States was passed by the House of Representatives.

‘Good Jesu, what will you do with my heart?’ These were supposedly the final words of Prior John Houghton, as the knife plunged into his chest. He was executed on 4 May 1535: a brutal business at ...