O n the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a bouquet of two dozen carnations at the front gates. A card, attached with a ...

O n the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a bouquet of two dozen carnations at the front gates. A card, attached with a ...

The Indefatigable Asa Briggs: A Biography by Adam Sisman is a detailed portrait of that voluminous chronicler of Victorian ...

In the course of the 15th to the 17th centuries yet another Western reading of the curse of Ham arose as the result of the ...

In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...

In conclusion, Hölscher suggests that the images of the symposium and the diver in the Paestum tomb provide a powerful ...

It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...

The lifelong rivalry of two early modern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

On 9 October 1676 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek – the ‘Father of Microbiology’ – presented his findings to the Royal Society.

Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English ...