James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
Around midnight on Saturday 26 March 1603 James VI was called from his bed at Holyrood Palace to receive an
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
Fixtures against Germany have defined – or at least preoccupied – English football ever since the two nations played their
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
According to Kathryn Hughes, the years between 1870 and 1939 were big for cats, as they underwent an image overhaul
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
Women, wrote the feminist Charlotte Stopes in 1890, were suffering under ‘the Despotism of the goddess Fashion’. Stopes belonged to
Catching Nessie on Film | History Today
On 19 October 1933 Daily Mail journalist Percy Cater wrote: Whether people elsewhere believe in the existence of a Loch
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
Last month I submitted an article on Elizabethan diplomacy to an academic journal. It was the result of several months
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
Why are you a historian of the Middle East? I spent my school years in Beirut and Cairo, a witness
Allah Made Me Beautiful by Layla Izruna illustrated by Laila Radhani
May13 This 6×6 board book is 18 pages of affirming and celebrating that no matter what we look like, “the
How the CCP is Closing China
As China’s economy continues a tailspin that is increasingly obvious to outsiders, the rest of the world asks: what will
