Early Modern

Natalie Livingstone’s The Mistresses of Cliveden is subtitled ‘Three centuries of scandal, power and intrigue’, words almost guaranteed to get a book a place on any popular history bestseller list, alongside the obligatory study of

Just over a week ago, I came up with an idea for a campaign to raise my Twitter presence and share some of my research. I decided to tweet each of my new followers with

 'Young law students would arrive at their coffee house, newspapers in hand, and saunter away their time, admiring one another’s get-ups'.  With these words, written in her light-hearted re-telling of English history Life Among the

History Matters met Prof Laurent Turcot, historical advisor on Assassins Creed: Unity, to talk popular history, video games and controversy. Interview and translation by Anna Jenkin. Laurent, how did you become a historical advisor for

In a somewhat misleadingly named “museum” (it is more accurately the lifelong collection of a wealthy jeweller) in the Sri Lankan coastal city of Galle, there exists a fascinating find. Among the coins, guns, daggers

Many of us gazed in awe and wonder at the solar eclipse that took place on Friday. As George Osborne tweeted, shortly after being criticised by the Institute for Fiscal Studies over his plans to