In Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Tim Blanning restores the ‘incorrigible Saxon’ to ...

T he question of how history judges prime ministers can be answered in one word: haphazardly. This is because, of course, ...

It is, however, actually a sampler from Barbados – the earliest known Barbadian sampler in any collection. The RSN sampler is ...

Alexander Lee is a fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. His latest book is ...

The Russians were among the first Europeans to sense California's potential. Had they not sold their settlement there in 1841 ...

Individuals are not happy in proportion to the amount of space their persons occupy. Yet certain nations, at certain periods of their history, seem to take it for granted that the wider they spread ...

Sir George Otto Trevalyan, whose books on the American Revolution are still standard reading, fostered the argument, drawn from the contemporary opponents of George III, that the American colonists ...

At the Durbar in 1903 the Viceroy made his entry into Delhi seated upon an elephant at the head of horsemen in chain armour, warriors on camels, fighting men on stilts, Burmen in green and mauve ...

Glancing at the reliefs illustrated in Han Tomb Art one sees at once that the people who produced them loved hunting, eating, drinking, dancing, music, charioteering, parlour games, and ancient ...