On 23 November 1929 Nigeria’s women rose against the colonial authorities, demanding a return to traditional values and the ...

National security during the Second World War was threatened by the ‘enemy within’ – working-class women, suspected of ...

Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden ...

Pilgrimage is not meant to be easy, but it remains a popular pursuit – even for non-believers.

What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours? A t 8.23am on the ...

The real female Victorian detectives were every bit as bold as their fictional counterparts – and far more prevalent than we ...

British agents of empire saw their actions in India through the texts of their classical educations. They looked for ...

Gina Anne Tam is Associate Professor of History and Co-Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Trinity University, San Antonio.

Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?

The rapid surrender of Japan in 1945 certainly suggested that the United States possessed the most decisive of weapons. Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less ...

To academic historians the Dark Ages are a thing of the past. And yet English Heritage, in their timeline of the Story of England from the prehistoric to the modern period, shows that, after the ...

For the December issue of the magazine we also asked leading contemporary historians the same question. Perhaps inevitably, the poll provoked controversy. We asked people to nominate their favoured ...