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Caught between the antagonistic states of India and Pakistan, Kashmir is stuck in geopolitical limbo. Its location – and its history – threaten to keep it there.

A new book for the new year is an old British custom, but an old book can be even better.

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochie’s project of moral reform.

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us that when it comes to sexuality and gender, scripture is often contradictory.

An attempt to prosecute German war criminals in 1921 failed to such an extent that the entire enterprise is largely forgotten. What went wrong?

The remarkable fall of absinthe: from 19th-century ‘Green Fairy’ to scourge of society.

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That the history of war is the same as military history.’

On 10 December 1948, after months of negotiation led by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the UN General Assembly.

Who were the women who fought the decisive battle against racial segregation in the American South?

William Strickland died on 8 December 1598. He was said to have introduced the turkey to England, but the truth followed him to his grave.