The learned sheikh’s fatwas – his online responses to believers’ questions delivered on his website IslamQA – no longer bear ...

On 9 March 1522 the Swiss Reformation began with an ‘ostentatious eating of sausages.’ T he Reformation in Switzerland began ...

Rome’s first theatre was an enormous spectacle intended to glorify Pompey’s successes. Was it all bread and circuses? I n the ...

Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War by Minoo Dinshaw views the conflict through the sad case of ...

Though Itami pushed back against Fanck’s orientalising depictions of cherry blossoms and Geisha, he advocated for Japanese ...

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest ...

This superbly ominous story is the earliest English record of the legend of the Wild Hunt. This legend, found in folklore ...

Giovanni Morell—later Morelli—was born in Verona on 25 February 1816 beginning a lifetime of dedication to the art of the ...

In the context of American history vary widely. Describe something as a cult to a modern audience and what will most likely spring to mind is the Manson Family murders (1969), the 900 Jonestown murder ...

As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.