History

Ernest Hemingway encounters Josephine Baker

The Spanish Civil War and the 'pact of forgetting'

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the year without a summer

Who were Britain's first ever celebrity couple?

History's greatest diaries

Who are the forgotten queens of 1066?

The history behind C. J. Sansom's Lamentation

Reinventing sex - Jonathan Eig on The Birth of The Pill

Margaret Dickinson on Sheffield’s ‘buffer girls’

History’s greatest romances

An interview with Tim Severin, author of The Pope's Assassin

A short guide to the English Civil War