The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

Blame the Patriots more than the cunning Dunmore. Norfolk native Andrew Lawler’s latest book is a lively gathering of ...

The celebrated photojournalist picks six favourites. He will talk to Richard Ovenden about his life and work, and will be ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been ...

A love story blighted by events in an England emerging from war, plague and the Puritan age, is a brand new novel, destined ...

An official at the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library says the reader likely checked "Wild West" out around Halloween 1926. The book was supposed to be back by Nov. 23 that year.

Rain of Ruin, a new study by war expert Richard Overy, decisively shows that the atomic bombs didn’t force the Japanese emperor’s hand Fritz Bauer not only put eminent Nazis on trial but made ...

Promotion to ‘Manager of the Liskeard Waterworks’ enabled Sampson to take a lease on no.6 Manley Terrace, Station Road. The 1881 census lists the occupants as John (58), Lucy (56), their niece Ellen ...

Calling Hamas terrorists is “dehumanising”, an academic claimed as a controversial book launch went ahead at the London School of Economics (LSE). Prof Jeroen Gunning, of King’s College ...

After a period of mild early spring weather, new forecasts are predicting that snow will hit Britain. As we transition from winter to spring, the UK has enjoyed rising temperatures and sunny spells ...