Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels finds that the son of God is more than the sum of his ...

The controversial outcome of a sculpture competition between Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti changed the urban ...

How did Western Europe learn of the fall of Constantinople, the loss of Negroponte, and the Ottoman defeat at Lepanto? In the ...

Imaobong Umoren is Associate Professor of International History at LSE and the author of Empire Without End: A New History of ...

Italy’s entry into the Great War in 1915 prompted 300,000 men to return to their homeland to join the fight. Were they Italian enough for Italy?

The Earth was created in seven days. On which day were the dinosaurs made? Discoveries in geology and palaeontology forced Victorian creationists to be especially creative. When Samuel Pepys’ diary ...

The Crusader state of Acre was the most cosmopolitan city in the medieval world. Its inhabitants thought it too valuable to destroy. They were wrong.

In June 1825 Samuel Pepys’ diary was published for the first time. It was an instant hit. Newspapers were soon full of reviews quoting memorable passages from this secret journal: Pepys’ descriptions ...

Miyamoto Musashi played with time. In 1612 he fought a duel with Sasaki Kojiro, the ‘Demon of the Western Provinces’, on an island in the Straits of Shimonoseki. Kojiro arrived on time; Musashi ...

Susenyos depicted in an Ethiopian scroll, 17th century. Wellcome Trust. When the Jesuits arrived in Ethiopia in 1557 they encountered a Christian society whose antiquity rivalled Rome’s. The region ...

Decades of speculation followed, before, in 1952, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England dated the sarcophagus to the 13th century. This should have laid the issue to rest – but ...

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire by Sarah E. Bond assembles a case for the power of the worker in ...