St Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture, but in the US its parades have always been political.

Y ou have to know the angel is there before you can see him. He is hidden around a corner, a carving set high up on an ...

Mexico’s disgraced saviour General Antonio López de Santa Anna completed his comeback on 9 March 1839 as the Pastry War came to a close.

L ong before she died, the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner was horrified to realise that she was being written out of history ...

T he Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that, in 883, King Alfred sent an embassy to India: [That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St ...

Now famin beginneinge to Looke gastely and pale in every face, thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves ...

In the early 1800s harsh desert landscapes in North America’s West, including the Sonoran, Mojave, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, were considered a major obstacle by early advocates of US ...

At its height Oxford’s book trade enjoyed the establishment of Dominican and Franciscan friaries in need of books for university activities and preaching, and an early demand from lay figures for ...

Environmental history is a comparatively young field of enquiry with strong American roots. Roderick Nash, emeritus historian at the University of California, is usually credited with inventing the ...

South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the sun’. The kingdom was Spain, but the copywriter failed to mention ...

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The volte face has been astonishing. Until 2017, or thereabouts, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was seen as the hallmark of Islamic puritanism, where compulsorily veiled women were forbidden to travel ...