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Daniel Goldhagen defines antisemitism as ‘negative beliefs and emotions...

I am writing this in early September. Although some universities have altered...

The Reformation of the sixteenth century has many sides, and not the least...

Francis I of France reign lasted for more than thirty years and coincided with...

Decimal Day in Britain was Monday 15 February 1971. New coins and notes were...

The Elizabethan Reformation in Staffordshire had a shallow seedbed. The radical...

This is more than one of our conventional ‘Out and About in Local...

I wrote my last column shortly after the Great Debate. This time it is a few...

The viewer of the internationally popular television show Dallas was routinely...

Historical diaries written by children are rare and only seven from England and the United States written before 1800 are known to have survived. One of these,...

The now legendary film company Hammer made such classics as The Curse of...

Since the late Middle Ages periods in which it was fashionable for men to be...

The Historian / Spring 2010 11 Being president of the Historical Association...

Memorandum that Edinburgh was won on 8th day of May in the 36th year of the reign of Henry VIII and year of God 1543 and this book was acquired and brought...

It ought to be possible to match many of the letters of the alphabet to an English place-name and its particular food-stuff. From Bath Buns to Yorkshire...

Dates are grist to the mill of the historian. It's that time of year when dates...

This anonymous, notorious, and thrice reissued ‘penny dreadful'- to use...

St Deiniol's Library was founded in 1894 by William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 98)...

Two hundred years ago it must have seemed to some as if the time for political...