I ventured south today to do a book talk on my way to a couple of days of golf with some old pals. I stopped in Stafford, mainly because it...

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September 2026 and runs to Monday 14...

The Pyramids of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo in Egypt stand as some of the most iconic and enduring monuments in human history.

This is the latest in Osprey's MAA series on the Korean War by Benjamin Lai, covering the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) and United Nations ...

VERSION 5 (18 September 2026) includes 290 new entries, increasing the database total to 2,822 Jewish soldiers. Another 69 service records have been expanded. When one adds circumstantial information ...

Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’

Government corruption and misspending inspired the medieval rebels depicted in The Uprising.

Istanbul (CNN) — It's been a prison, a fortress, an imperial treasury, and a desolte ruin. Over hundreds of years, Istanbul's dark citadel has survived empires and neglect alike — and now, as it unde...

A medieval island that was home to a wealthy city continues to fascinate 800 years after it disappeared beneath the waves.

I spoke at a meeting at the University of St Andrews yesterday evening, which gave me the chance to revisit the historical sights in this f...

A government scheme is giving citizens cash for spending time with a good book. We ask behavioural scientists, along with The Anxious Generation author and psychologist Jonathan Haidt, whether it’ll h...

AI is changing history writing, but authentic experience and rigorous historical research make history writers unique and irreplaceable.

From the blog of Mohamed Osman at The Times of Israel

From Westminster Abbey to Mont St Michel, the Bayeux tapestry’s 33 buildings reveal its designer was familiar with monastic manuscripts and stonemasonry.

Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines

This is the third book in Alex Rutherford's Empire of the Moghul series. A fictional adaptation of the early Moghul rulers. The first two c...

Centuries later, archaeology is bringing a lost Ottoman world back into view in Szigetvar

This book covers the Armenian rebellion and the events of the First World War in the Turkish region of Van. Built out from the old city and...

The Ayr International Air Show is our largest local event of the year, drawing more than 200,000 people to attend the seashore events and a...