History Matters

The decision to make Native Americans citizens of the United States was not straightforwardly progressive.

The Cyrillic alphabet is celebrated across the Slavonic-speaking world, but not only as an appreciation of literacy – it has a political dimension too.

When the English and Nazi German football teams met for the first time on British soil in 1935, the game was not the headline.

The Loch Ness Monster’s first appearance on film captured both the hype and the scepticism surrounding cinema’s newest star.

Despite their reputation, London’s private members’ clubs have never been entirely for men.

A Nottinghamshire election in 1593 descended into farce, violence and, ultimately, futility.

When it was first named in 17th-century Switzerland, nostalgia was a very real – and very dangerous – disease.

Wills in early modern England tell us much more than simply who left what to whom, and should not be discarded lightly.

How an English navigator became one of the shogun’s most trusted advisers.

The term ‘money laundering’ is often associated with mobsters, drug lords and morally dubious executives. But the expression’s first use was far less lawless.