In the febrile political climate of early modern Europe, letters – and the information they contained – were dangerous.

It was Pierre Trudeau who famously summed up Canada’s ‘American dilemma’ when speaking to an audience at the National Press ...

As Nasser moved to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was forced to choose between faith and ...

When Samuel Pepys’ diary was first published 200 years ago it was an instant hit, but rumours soon spread about what had been cut and why.

Hitler’s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht by Douglas Carl Peifer surfaces the stories of those who sought to sit ...

The siege of Mafeking lasted seven months from October 1899, when the little town was surrounded by a Boer force of some 5,000 men under a redoubtable leader, Piet Cronje. The British garrison ...

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain, Sam Wetherell discovers a city of slavery, ships, soccer, and socialism, whose fortunes rose and fell with the tide. Liverpool, we often hear, is a city apart ...

Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International History at LSE. His latest book is The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 ...

I n May 1720 an infected ship from the Levant arrived in Marseilles, bringing with it the last major epidemic of bubonic ...

Henry IV ascended the throne of England much to his own satisfaction in the year 1399. As opening lines for a history go, this is an excellent one. Its author was the teenage Jane Austen, in a lively ...