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The ‘most controversial character in the history of discovery’ was born on March 9th, 1454. But who was Amerigo Vespucci?

The events leading up to Britain and France's declarations of war on Russia on successive days on 27 and 28 March 1854.

Angela McShane Jones asks what depictions in broadsides of Mary II with her breasts exposed, tell us about 17th-century popular attitudes to royalty.

Nick Barratt argues that Normandy’s loss in the reign of King John has had a far-reaching impact on Britain.

The best history books, films and students of 2003 announced.

Terry Jones, former Python, describes how a perverse fascination with the boring bits of Chaucer converted him from being a clown into a historian of the 14th century.

Robert Garland asks what murder meant to the apparently bloodthirsty Greeks and Romans.

Nicholas Orme considers how the crowded cities of medieval England dealt with the death and burial of their citizens.

Emelyne Godfrey looks at the latest trends in postgraduate historical studies.

The clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley died February 6th, 1804, aged seventy-one.