There was no law permitting cremation, but there was no law against it either. On 13 January 1884, a Welsh druid took the ...

The Tree Hunters is, like Pakenham’s earlier books, beautifully written and enjoyable to read. It radiates pleasure in its ...

Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus by John Haywood and Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and ...

The concerns of daily life prompted early modern people to seek reassurance in fate, stars, and astrologers.

Perhaps the movement’s most recognisable aspect was its enigmatic leader ‘Rebecca’, purported to be taken from Genesis, in ...

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...

Modernity is a ubiquitous phenomenon which defines the age in which we are living, heralding progress and enlightenment – ...

In the export of British capital and enterprise in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the key role was often played by individual entrepreneurs who created the necessary interest among the ...

Gore Vidal suggested that books have had their day: that we should ‘concede the inevitable, scrap the existing educational system, and introduce the young to the past through film’. This is going too ...

Suffragette sets out to tell the story of the ‘footsoldiers’ of the women’s suffrage movement. Director Sarah Gavon and writer Abi Morgan have therefore made the refreshing decision to avoid a more ...