[ The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought by Ralph Raico. Edited by Ryan McMaken. Ludwig von ...

While Haiti was isolated from the world, fictionalized accounts of its only monarch, Henry Christophe, were often written and ...

Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick ...

A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...

Much like gender, the space between fantasy and sci-fi is a spectrum. While books like The Lord of the Rings and The ...

The fragment contains two key episodes, including the only surviving account about Merlin and the early years of Arthur's ...

The first thing to say about laissez-faire liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This ...

In the wake of Anne’s execution, the King weds Jane Seymour. Marital bliss does nothing to quell Henry’s rage at his daughter, and Cromwell makes a risky play to save Princess Mary from her father’s ...

In 1923, pioneering explorer and writer Lady Dorothy Mills became the first Englishwoman to travel to Timbuktu.

In his monthly column, John Mitchinson explores how the long slow history of lead poisoning teaches us a salutary lesson ...

S column on the ancient histories of our cities will examine Stirling from the 12th to 17th centuries, when the royal burgh was very ...