Seventy two years ago, on June 22nd 1948, a Royal proclamation announced that henceforward the title Emperor of India would no longer form p...

Today is the 485th anniversary of the beheading of St John Fisher in 1535. Fr Tim Finigan of The hermeneutic of continuity   has a post toda...

Stonehenge and the associated landscape around it continues to reveal secrets about life in Neolithic Britain. The latest discoveries are o...

This letter reflecting upon the debate around the statue of Cecil Rhodes is from an academic at Oriel and is in the Daily Telegraph. It i...

With all the current discussion about the history of transatlantic slave trading and slavery it was interesting to see on a daily history we...

Stephanie Mann on her excellent Supremacy and Survival  blog had this post the other day. I have taken the liberty of copying it in full h...

The saga of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel continues. The latest developments are recorded by the Daily Telegraph at cecil-rhodes-sta...

According to one of the history websites to which I subscribe today is the anniversary of a lunar event in 1178 that still draws the intere...