Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”

The story of wine is a glorious story which illuminates the topics of more conventional histories

Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold

This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was

Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the century of the tank

Understanding George and his reign is crucial to our post-progressivist consideration of the history of patriotism

On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima

View from Oxford: Robert Beddard speaks from retirement

Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too

Today, our heroes are demi-gods with superhuman powers, genius detectives and, painful though it is to admit, activists