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When England’s search for a Northwest Passage via sea failed, an audacious plan to forge a land route was hatched by the Muscovy Company.

Archaeologist Miles Russell describes recent discoveries which overturn accepted views about the Roman invasion of Britain.

Martin Stanton shows that to take a dip in the sea at Margate is to take part in a long historical process with cultural, sexual, medical, economic and socia

What are stars made of?

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

The 19th-century craze for spiritualism ‘resurrected’ the dead through manipulated photography, a practice that boomed with the trauma caused by war – though

John Wesley spent two years as a chaplain in Georgia in the 1730s; Stuart Andrews describes how forty years later he was much preoccupied with the

Speech, rather than hearing, has been at the heart of the long history of deaf exclusion.

Among the enterprises of Tudor England was a powerful Company, whose purpose was to “traffic with the dominions of the Grand Seignior.”

Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics.

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.

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.

Richard Kennett calls on his fellow history teachers to embrace narrative. There is no better way to inspire the historians of the future.

Blessed with beauty and wealth, California fails to come to terms with its past.

Coffee from Ethiopia to Brazil, rubber from Brazil to Malaya...

Victorian Methodists, writes Stuart Andrews,

The rise of laboratory science in the late 19th century put stark focus on the moral cost of medical innovation.

For Edward I, filling his army with criminals made perfect sense.

What were the origins of Charles Darwin's particular species of genius?