For 18th-century smugglers in Guernsey and the Isle of Man, plague was a business opportunity.

Wives for the settlers at Jamestown by William Ludwell Sheppard, 1876. New York Public Library. Public Domain.

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain, Sam Wetherell discovers a city of slavery, ships, soccer, and socialism, whose ...

Tsuda was a decorated veteran of the Satsuma Rebellion. He was an ultra-nationalist; his crime was ‘loyalty run mad’, one ...

Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International History at LSE. His latest book is The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 ...

How did medieval holy men cope with the strictures their devotion placed upon them?

Arsenic was a hidden killer in Victorian homes, but it also played a large part in the British economy. Which comes first: ...

Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. Is there more to the story?

The young student’s name was Louis Braille, and though his name would forever be linked to the tactile writing system for the ...