James II is generally considered to have been one of the worst of English kings. Recently, two American historians have incidentally had something to say in his defence. But in earlier times, ...

Bolesław Chrobry was finally crowned king of Poland on 18 April 1025. It was an elevation two decades in the making. Otto III ...

The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw himself as a puppet-master, engineering British politics from afar in his feud ...

Patricia Fara is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and a columnist at History Today.

As Christianity spread, it carried Catherine of Siena’s legacy to the Americas. Her asceticism inspired Rose of Lima, Kateri ...

From a Gaelic perspective, however, it is clear that Ossian is a manifestation of a well-attested tradition that existed long ...

Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell illuminates the inner life and passions of James VI ...

Alice Hunt is Professor of Early Modern Literature and History at the University of Southampton and author of Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660 (Faber and Faber) The technical answer ...

Scholars and Their Kin: Historical Explorations, Literary Experiments, edited by Stéphane Gerson, has historians scaling their family trees.

The morning after Edward VII was crowned King of Great Britain and Emperor of India in Westminster Abbey, Canon Welldon treated the colonial troops who had attended the ceremony to a valedictory ...

Seasoned readers of this column may recall an earlier appreciation of the benefits of boredom, specifically when it is brought on by reading less-than-compelling history books. But reading is not the ...