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 ...

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

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.