On 10 December 1948, after months of negotiation led by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ...

The remarkable fall of absinthe: from 19th-century ‘Green Fairy’ to scourge of society.

Between 1949 and 1966 the Communist state co-opted the medium for propaganda, and publishing of lianhuanhua boomed. New ...

The mystery of what happened to the Marie Celeste gripped me as a child. It’s nice to have some mysteries in life though. Lucy Noakes is Rab Butler Chair in Modern History at the University of Essex ...

William Strickland died on 8 December 1598. He was said to have introduced the turkey to England, but the truth followed him ...

Helen Castor is author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Allen Lane) ...

In Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles, Andrew Ziminski deconstructs the humble parish ...

In the racially segregated American South of the 1950s a Black woman sits in the section of a bus reserved for white passengers. Physically and verbally abused by the driver, she is forced off the ...