ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

LETTERS

Our historians discuss the movies that have informed and inspired them

‘Green sickness’, also known as the ‘disease of virgins’ – a diagnosis applied mainly to teenage girls from the 16th to the 19th centuries – is one of the most puzzling conditions in the history of me

A millennium ago, the land that is now the United States looked very different from how many might imagine it. Instead of a sparsely populated wilderness, across much of North America people inhabited

Samurai rose to be global emblems of honour and courage, but their story doesn’t always match the myths they told about themselves, as a British Museum exhibition shows