Unreason reigned supreme in Zurich on 5 February 1916 as Dada made its debut at the Cabaret Voltaire. B y February 1916 Lenin was staying in a shabby quarter of Zurich. He lived next to a butcher’s on ...

The annexation of Cyprus was more than another milestone in Roman expansion – it was a showcase of political theatre. In the ...

Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding goes where few historians dare: south of ...

Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than ...

The last act of which the composer of Aida and Don Carlos, Rigoletto and Otello seems to have been conscious was buttoning up his waistcoat. Giuseppe Verdi spent his last Christmas and saw in his last ...

In Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, Matthias Egeler follows the huldufólk from the wild places of ...

The term 'cold war' first came into currency in 1947. It was used to denote a sharp and unexpected deterioration in postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. In 1945 the USA ...

British servicemen overseas bought sex, sometimes in brothels run by the British army. In the 1970s they began to talk about it.

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

I n the 1820s London was the largest city in the world. With more than a million inhabitants, it lay at the heart of an ...

Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...

Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James Romm looks for hope amid the sound and fury surrounding the great orator of ancient Athens.