Donald Trump has often been likened to Aaron Burr, described as ‘one of the most unprincipled men in the United States’. His isolationism, however, owes more to Thomas Jefferson.

Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair explores nine nations, dissolved or imagined, and what they tell us about Latin America. Aside from the Falklands War, and perhaps the Spanish conquest, ...

The Levant Company, or Company of Turkey Merchants as it was also known, received its first charter in 1582 from Queen Elizabeth. The need for new markets for English cloth and anxiety about access to ...

I n the late 70s AD Marcus Cerrinius Vatia ran for the lower magisterial office of aedile in the ancient city of Pompeii. More than 80 inscriptions, painted on the walls of the city’s buildings, ...

The most famous English historian of his time was born, to his lasting satisfaction, on St Crispin’s Day - the anniversary of Henry V’s victory at Agincourt - at Rothley Temple, the country mansion of ...

An exiled revolutionary, André Rigaud’s return to the island of his birth changed Haiti’s political destiny. Was he sent back to help reinstate slavery? His enemies would have us believe so. In April ...

Pivotal to any consideration of Napoleon’s ultimate defeat is the fact that he did not inherit a foreign relations strategy, but developed his own. Therefore he should bear a high degree of ...

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No Scottish clan is as controversial as the Campbells. Yet, says Ian Bradley, the opening of its Argyll Mausoleum offers a chance to re-assess a contentious past. After years of service in the West ...

On 27 July MPs filed into Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons to cast the first ever votes for a Conservative leader. The bookmakers expected a Maudling victory. Maudling agreed and, having cast ...

As rude rhymes and rumours threatened reputations, the Elizabethan government attempted to regulate barbed language.

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