From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years ...

Tess Little is working on a history of women’s liberation and a novel.

Stephen Phelan lives in Madrid. He is work­i­ng on a book about the missing skull of Francisco de Goya.

In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like ...

We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century ...

When the journalist Pagan Kennedy began investigating the origin of the rape kit she looked it up on Wikipedia. Its invention was credited to Sergeant Louis Vitullo of the Chicago Police Department, ...

Iain Mathieson studies population genetics and human evolution at the University of Pennsylvania.

We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19 th -century state formations, European and global politics are shaken by continuing ...

I had been back​ in Nairobi for a few days when I heard that Raila Odinga, the towering opposition figure who played ...

Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative ...

Spain’s provincial authorities were usually compliant, González said, in part because the exhumations don’t cost them any ...

It was spoken primarily by the rural poor; the expansion of state education, which began in the 1830s, meant that English ...