Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

In part 3 of the Great Revolutions series, Dominic Alexander explains how the rank and file of the army forced Cromwell and ...

Britain is at war with France, and evolution is an idea linked to French radicals and revolutionaries. Darwin is one of six children in an affluent English family. In the early 19th century there ...

Notre Dame in five dates As the mighty Notre Dame cathedral prepares to reopen its doors in a month's time after a devastating fire in 2019, a look back at five key dates in the Paris landmark's ...

The French Revolution would have an enormous impact ... They set about promoting the radical concept that regardless of religion, beliefs or wealth, everyone should be equal.

Like a lot of political vocabulary—see also: "left" and "right"—the political meaning of "conservative" came as a result of ...

He is the first to analyse Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations. He also takes regional ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This is the first study of French ... and radical social transformation. Analyzing France and its largest Caribbean colony (Saint-Domingue) ...

The election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that's made President Trump's three presidential contests a wild ride.

As John Adams saw the political world, there were essentially three main forms of government—monarchy, aristocracy, and ...