The first crusade

324 CE CONSTANTINOPLE FOUNDED Constantine selects Byzantium as ...

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

Charles FitzRoy immerses us in the experiences of people who travelled to the city in the 18th century

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

How the Qin forged a great power from the fragments of the Warring States

Ten creative thinkers who across the centuries helped shape Istanbul into the city it is today