Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...

They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...

The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...

Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...

For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....

But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...

By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...

Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...

A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...

Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...