The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
Chevaliere d’Eon or Chevalier d’Eon? An 18th-century legal dispute between two French spies unravelled into a public battle about identity.
Chevaliere d’Eon or Chevalier d’Eon? An 18th-century legal dispute between two French spies unravelled into a public battle about identity.
The remarkable fall of absinthe: from 19th-century ‘Green Fairy’ to scourge of society.
Who were the women who fought the decisive battle against racial segregation in the American South?
How did the People’s Republic of China cope with a literary canon filled with un-communist ideas? Comics called lianhuanhua were the answer, at least for a while.
A viking mercenary who fought on three sides, who was Thorkell the Tall?
Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?
The First World War revealed the bad state of Britain’s teeth. Intervention was required to keep the nation biting fit.
Misfit, Old West villain or tragic hero of the O.K. Corral: who was the real Doc Holliday?
How the first Conservative leadership election modernised the party in the 1960s.
The often overlooked life of Robert Fergusson, Edinburgh’s unofficial poet laureate and Scotland’s voice.