In the 19th century nascent copyright law allowed brands to use fine art in their advertising. It raised prestige, sales, and controversy.

On 6 October 1802 Ludwig van Beethoven confessed his despair at the loss of his hearing in the Heiligenstadt Testament.

Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four by Susan Pedersen wonders whether a radical relationship might offer inspiration for a ...

The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins charts the ascent of an idea from prehistory to popular culture.

Wikipedia turns 25 this year. Its success was not a given and reveals much about our changing relationship with information online.

Coal merchant and concert promoter Thomas Britton passed away on 27 September 1714 after a prank went awry. T here was plenty of music in Restoration London, but for those in the know the best place ...

In 1355 Bartolus of Sassoferrato, by common consent the most important post-antique Roman lawyer, wrote a brief treatise ...

Martha Vandrei is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter History is under threat in many universities. All the historians at the University of Exeter, myself included, are being asked ...

In 1938 a sensational spy trial exposed a Nazi plot to seduce and blackmail US officers. Despite America’s technological might, counterintelligence had been slow on the uptake. In November 1938 a New ...

The geologist William Buckland worked through many theories about the creation of Earth and the biblical Flood. None of them were quite right. The Oxford University geologist William Buckland ...

Before the Spanish conquest, the history of the Aztec Empire was recorded orally and with hieroglyphs. In danger of being lost or forgotten, Indigenous historians began to write it down. In Mexico ...

On 30 May 1935, 28 riders left Ashgabat, the capital of Soviet Turkmenistan, on what may be the most improbable petition in the history of animal husbandry. They would ride to Moscow, some 4,300 ...