In a recent tweet, Robert Jenrick, shadow justice secretary, denounced immigrants from ‘alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women’. He claimed that these ‘medieval attitudes’ were ...

It is night in a small room behind a post office in late 18th-century Paris. Six clerks work by candlelight, each moving with practised speed, first pressing letter seals into small balls of ...

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term were nothing if not controversial. This was especially the case in the United States’ northern neighbour where his talk of Canada becoming the ‘51st ...

As well as Latin Christian victories, it described moments of suffering and struggle – and two occasions in which crusaders ...

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet ...

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet Union’s undercover intelligence gathering. America, América: A New History of ...

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Anna Whitelock offers a panoramic view of Jacobean foreign policy ...

In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash ...

In the early Middle Ages a new ceremony was invented that would underpin the ideology of European monarchies for a millennium and more: the royal consecration. This ceremony, in which the Church and ...

Britain’s self-styled ‘Thief-Taker General’ was not all he seemed. On 24 May 1725 Jonathan Wild was finally brought to justice. ‘Jonathan Wild pelted by the Mob on his way to Tyburn’, by Valois.