The lifelong rivalry of two early modern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village invites reflection on half a century of change.

It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...

They go low, we go lower. The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain by George Owers offers up the origins ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and Christianity itself.

Childbirth in the early modern period was a battleground between midwives and surgeons. The Chamberlen family of surgeons sought to reform the system with a revolutionary new tool: the forceps.

Chinese astronomers and the European Jesuits who worked alongside them found evidence of China’s antiquity in the heavens. Others were sceptical: how old was China really?

This invokes many references to architectural details from Homer’s account of Odysseus’ eventual homecoming: the threshold, where the goddess Athena, descending from Olympus, alighted; the entrance ...

One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by the novelist Winifred Peck (1882-1962). Looking back from the 1950s, Peck describes her education ...

The Prussian Kingdom was founded on January 18th, 1701, when the Elector Frederick III had himself crowned Frederick I at Konigsberg. Prussia, which was to become a byword for German militarism and ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and Christianity itself. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman ...

The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John ...