Pizza is the world’s favourite fast food. We eat it everywhere – at home, in restaurants, on street corners. Some three billion pizzas are sold each year in the United States alone, an average of 46 ...

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

Queenship was transformed in the early Middle Ages, as power came to be derived not just from marriage, but from God.

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

In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain, Sam Wetherell discovers a city of slavery, ships, soccer, and socialism, whose ...

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

For 18th-century smugglers in Guernsey and the Isle of Man, plague was a business opportunity.

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.

In its first two centuries of existence Christianity witnessed the persecution of many of its members by officials of the Roman Empire; the causes of these persecutions have been and continue to be ...

In the winter of 1471, the municipal council of Nördlingen in southern Germany got word of a scandal in the town’s public brothel. It prompted a criminal investigation into the conduct of the ...

The Earth was created in seven days. On which day were the dinosaurs made? Discoveries in geology and palaeontology forced ...

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