There was a grand uproar in the quadrangle, the men threw out to the boys old hats (which were immediately used as footballs), biscuits were also thrown out and hot coppers, and the quadrangle echoed ...

Whig is beautiful? Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism by Adrian Wooldridge looks for signs of life ...

The letters, along with supplementary accounts of court life, are the treasure trove of information which inform Magdalena S.

The first written references to prehistoric rock art were by the Chinese philosopher Han Fei in the third century BC. Europe ...

The sinking of the White Ship was a disaster for England’s King Henry I, but it was also felt deeply by his subjects.

He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not only ...

With the culling of USAID those days are over. I n 1941, with Europe and Asia convulsed by war, Henry Luce, founder of TIME ...

Contemporary newspapers painted Masall as one of the most successful snake hunters in the United States of America. She had ...

July 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the short-lived ‘English’ constitution in Sicily. It is often forgotten that during the Napoleonic Wars the island was continuously occupied by Britain for ...

The Church Council of Constance assembled in 1414 under pressure from the Holy Roman Emperor to resolve the confusing and embarrassing situation in which the Church found itself with three popes all ...

For nine days in 1926 the United Kingdom was gripped by the first and only general strike in its history. Between 4-12 May more than two million workers downed tools in sympathy with members of the ...

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was established in 1909 to exploit the Persian Gulf oil field, which had been discovered the year before. The name was later changed to Anglo-Iranian. By 1950 the company ...