It is, however, actually a sampler from Barbados – the earliest known Barbadian sampler in any collection. The RSN sampler is ...

Alexander Lee is a fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. His latest book is ...

The Russians were among the first Europeans to sense California's potential. Had they not sold their settlement there in 1841 ...

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T he question of how history judges prime ministers can be answered in one word: haphazardly. This is because, of course, ...

As Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of liberty to an enemy within. The Younger Pitt and the Ochakov Affair In 1791 ...

The officers of the Austro-Hungarian cruiser Sankt Georg, flagship of the Fifth Division, sat down to lunch in the wardroom. In the lobby outside the ship’s orchestra began to play, according to ...

In September 1949 the American, British and Canadian governments announced that an atomic explosion had recently occurred in the Soviet Union. The Soviet news agency Tass responded, laughably blaming ...