Women who ruled the world

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

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

The 1066 Norman Conquest is retold with plenty of blood and guts

Who Owns Beauty? Bénédicte Savoy (Polity, £25) ...

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

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