The artist Chaim Soutine was obsessed with Rembrandt’s painting of a flayed and headless ox. After managing at the age of ...

The prosperity of Asante, in present-day Ghana, was built in part on abundant deposits of precious metal. The British colony ...

The General Strike of 1926 by Jonathan Schneer; The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike That Shook Britain by David ...

The wider circumpolar region is rich in oil, gas, metals and minerals, while thawing ice has increased the navigability of ...

Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot with Judith Perrignon (Translated from French by Natasha Lehrer & Ruth Diver) ...

Baby-making has become ‘a capitalist’s wet dream’, writes journalist Alev Scott in Cash Cow. Although the subject has been much explored by scholars, Scott comes at it a little differently – initially ...

Venice and the Jews by Alexander Lee ...

For Edward Gibbon, the decline of the Roman Empire was a matter of blame. He did not hesitate to condemn a fatal combination of violent barbarian invasion and the growing popularity of Christianity ...

With Eisenhower’s armies closing in on Hitler’s Reich in the spring of 1945, Allied intelligence experts warned of a last-ditch stand by the Nazis in an Alpine redoubt and of a nationwide ‘Werewolf’ ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

All but a few crumbs of the available archive materials have been studied, every political and psychological theory has been applied, filters of every colour – whitewash, deepest red, pitch black – ...