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

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, ...

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 ...

The author of A Relation of the Island of Britain, who is generally supposed to have been Trevisan, a member of the household of the Venetian ambassador to the first Tudor monarch, wrote of the Welsh ...

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

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.

The record of the southern confederacy in the field of foreign policy was one of almost unrelieved failure. It is indeed ironic that the closest approach to the realization of Confederate diplomatic ...

British traders in enslaved Africans found ways around the Slave Trade Act of 1807, while commerce flourished through the import of slave-grown cotton. Marika Sherwood looks at the history of racist ...

In contemporary eyes, writes D.W. Brogan, there was a close parallel between the Restoration of the Bourbons and the Restoration of the Stewarts. The revival of the French monarchy was expected to ...

As politics in Britain, Europe and the US descends into fragmentation and bitter division, Frank Prochaska commends the civilising voice of Walter Bagehot. The First World War transformed women-only ...