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

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.

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

Diets in early modern England were grain-based, consisting largely of bread, porridge, and beer. Before bakers, brewers, and householders could produce them, their grain had to be ground. Ground grain ...

Alice Hunt is Professor of Early Modern Literature and History at the University of Southampton and author of Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660 (Faber and Faber) The technical answer ...

Anne Frank is chiefly known for her Diary, with approximately eighteen million copies sold, in fifty-two editions, in over fifty languages (including Japanese, Ladino, and Serbo-Croat). A play and a ...

The original effects of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt were to extend throughout the nineteenth century, working upon the minds of men, not only in the Nile valley but throughout the Ottoman empire. The ...

In the year 1900 it would not have been hard to forecast India’s political future; and Japan, in the preceding half century, had moved even farther than India in reaction to the West. But anyone then ...

“I am at ease with myself only when I am doing my duty,” wrote Diderot in 1760; and it is a characteristic of the man and his age that he entertained few doubts as to where his duty lay. During the ...

Beginning as the enfant terrible of the Conservative Party, Salisbury ended as its Grand Old Man. In his younger days, he was seen by Disraeli, whom he first loathed and then served, as “a great ...