This superbly ominous story is the earliest English record of the legend of the Wild Hunt. This legend, found in folklore ...

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest ...

The learned sheikh’s fatwas – his online responses to believers’ questions delivered on his website IslamQA – no longer bear ...

Rome’s first theatre was an enormous spectacle intended to glorify Pompey’s successes. Was it all bread and circuses? I n the ...

Though Itami pushed back against Fanck’s orientalising depictions of cherry blossoms and Geisha, he advocated for Japanese ...

Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War by Minoo Dinshaw views the conflict through the sad case of ...

Giovanni Morell—later Morelli—was born in Verona on 25 February 1816 beginning a lifetime of dedication to the art of the ...

The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at ...

The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...

As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.