On 23 November 1929 Nigeria’s women rose against the colonial authorities, demanding a return to traditional values and the ejection of the British. T o the British officials in Nigeria they were the ...
National security during the Second World War was threatened by the ‘enemy within’ – working-class women, suspected of ...
Pilgrimage is not meant to be easy, but it remains a popular pursuit – even for non-believers.
The real female Victorian detectives were every bit as bold as their fictional counterparts – and far more prevalent than we ...
The British colonisers who travelled to India from the 18th century onwards were steeped in the Classics; they knew their Greek and Latin (if not the languages of India) and quoted liberally from ...
What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours? A t 8.23am on the ...
On Sunday 14th November 1501 the wedding of Prince Arthur, Henry VII's eldest son, and Princess Catherine of Aragon was celebrated splendidly in old St Paul's Cathedral. Stands had been erected in the ...
T he sums are eye-watering. In 991 the English king Æthelred paid the Vikings £10,000 to stop them sacking the east coast of England. Three years later a sum variously recorded as £16,000 or £22,000 ...
Why St Brice became so popular in Anglo-Saxon England is a mystery. A Gaulish cleric of the fourth century, he succeeded St Martin as Bishop of Tours and behaved so badly that he was driven out of his ...
Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden ...
Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?
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