Volume 68 Issue 1 January 2018

The development of interior painting schemes has a colourful, if hazardous, history.

A monumental work provides an architectural and topographical survey of Rome from its foundation until the century after the fall of its Empire.

In the Industrial Revolution, state intervention, protectionism and immigration were all adopted by successive governments to promote British manufacturing.

Attempts to unify a diverse continent require subtlety and respect. 

While best known as the author of The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli played an important if unlikely role in the history of music. 

Despite the myth of a lone genius toiling away into the night, history is a collective endeavour.

We ask leading historians 20 questions on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on the Tudors ...

Japan’s vast Asian empire became home to more than a million female settlers, who told their stories in an effort to keep in contact. 

Cuneiform tablets preserved in the fire that devastated the Mesopotamian city of Ebla offer an extraordinary insight into life 4,000 years ago.