Maxine Berg receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust. Natalie Zemon Davis, who died on October 21 just short of her 95th birthday, was probably the best-known and most well-regarded of North ...

History is all around you. The food you eat, the clothes you wear, the blood running through your veins — everything has its own story. So, readers and history-lovers, what happens when we zoom in a ...

The other day I ran into a colleague crossing the Green. She asked me, as everyone asks me, what book I'm listening to. I told her that I was listening to a book about sand. She said, "sand?". I said ...

In 1757, British Admiral John Byng was executed by firing squad after the island of Minorca, in the western Mediterranean, was lost to the French a year earlier at the start of the Seven Years’ War.

In the preface to The Golden Thread, Kassia St. Clair tells us that this "is a book written for the curious." In the pages that follow, the author delivers on her promise. Why else would one spend 11 ...

Prior to the Second World War, there were a total of 150 Jewish-owned shops in Trondheim, Norway. Three hundred of the city's 80,000 inhabitants were Jews. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Keith Brown, Director of Politics, Culture, & Identity; Associate Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown UniversityThis talk was the keynote address of "Rethinking Crossroads: ...