The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

Three ideological currents – ultraconservative Christians, national-populists and techno-libertarians – though often at odds, ...

Have you ever sat with a cup of tea at the end of a weeding session, with a feeling close to happiness? Or returned from the ...

Rob Cowen’s discovery of a skull near the A1 motorway leads him to explore layers of Britain’s history — and battle his own historical demons along the way ...

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

In the modern day, mirrors are just about everywhere. But that wasn't always the case, and the mirror actually has a ...

He became absorbed in alchemy, a secretive study of the nature of life and the medieval forerunner of chemistry ... Leibniz, one of Europe’s most prominent philosophers, had set his mind ...

To add to the oddity of the situation, Tarago’s self-appointed, yet no less important, order of knights who are leading the ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Doom: The Dark Ages guide: With the release date fast approaching, shield in hand, there's still plenty more to learn about ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.