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 ...

Early on in this masterful account of Buddhism’s emergence and spread throughout the world, Donald S. Lopez cautions his readers that the very existence of a historical Buddha remains subject to ...

In the early 1910s a young woman set out every day to walk the river banks near Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Ida Hayward was recording something extraordinary: the arrival in the UK of hundreds ...

The morning after Edward VII was crowned King of Great Britain and Emperor of India in Westminster Abbey, Canon Welldon treated the colonial troops who had attended the ceremony to a valedictory ...

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 ...

In 1966 and 1967 a group of left-wing intellectuals and radical activists, recruited by the nonagenarian philosopher Bertrand Russell, constituted themselves into a self-proclaimed ‘tribunal’ to try ...

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 ...

In late April 1555 London erupted with joy at the rumour that Queen Mary I – ‘Bloody Mary’ – had finally given birth to a son. The whole city celebrated. According to the Venetian ambassador Giovanni ...