James II is generally considered to have been one of the worst of English kings. Recently, two American historians have incidentally had something to say in his defence. But in earlier times, ...

Bolesław Chrobry was finally crowned king of Poland on 18 April 1025. It was an elevation two decades in the making. Otto III ...

The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw himself as a puppet-master, engineering British politics from afar in his feud ...

Hungary had been ruled successively by Turkish sultans and Austrian emperors for centuries when the 1848 upsurge of revolutionary nationalism in Europe struck Budapest, where liberty, equality and ...

The Kings and Queens: An Irreverent Cartoon History of the British Monarchy by Kenneth Baker (Thames and Hudson 192 pp.) The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III by Diana ...

Edward Wightman was well-known in Puritan circles in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire in the early 1600s, where he began proclaiming increasingly heretical opinions. He reportedly did not believe that ...

The death-knell of the Chartist movement in Britain sounded on what was meant to be its day of triumph. In a year when thrones tottered and regimes quailed as revolutions broke out all over Europe, ...

As Christianity spread, it carried Catherine of Siena’s legacy to the Americas. Her asceticism inspired Rose of Lima, Kateri ...

A book on the history of the Peninsular War and another review of a title on Portugal as seen by British Diplomats and traders.

Patricia Fara is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and a columnist at History Today.

Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell illuminates the inner life and passions of James VI ...

From a Gaelic perspective, however, it is clear that Ossian is a manifestation of a well-attested tradition that existed long ...