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Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

In recent decades few fields of historical inquiry have produced as rich a body of work as the British Civil Wars.

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London. 

Fifty years on from Winston Churchill’s death, Chris Wrigley surveys the literature available, highlighting key works and lesser-known titles.

Contrary to myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain.