The vagaries of palace politics are notoriously difficult to record. Historians should pay attention to rumour. D onald Trump ...
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe by John J. Callanan revels in the making of ...
T he sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades when the German Lutheran author Johann Arndt published his Four Books on ...
In 1981, a horrific murder case required police in East Germany to go door-to-door collecting handwriting samples. There was ...
British soldiers fighting in the American Revolutionary War were unprepared for the terrain awaiting them across the Atlantic ...
The discovery of America should have given the Spanish economy a giant boost, but in 1503, three years before the death of Christopher Columbus, the city of Seville in Castile was awarded the ...
On 2 August 1274 Edward, the eldest son of Henry III, returned to England from the Crusades. He had been gone for four long years and much had happened in his absence. Most obviously, his father had ...
The first year of Edward I’s reign saw waves of strictures placed on a Jewish community in an already perilous situation. It set the path to their expulsion.