It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...

The Prussian Kingdom was founded on January 18th, 1701, when the Elector Frederick III had himself crowned Frederick I at Konigsberg. Prussia, which was to become a byword for German militarism and ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and ...

Childbirth in the early modern period was a battleground between midwives and surgeons. The Chamberlen family of surgeons ...

They go low, we go lower. The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain by George Owers offers up the origins ...