Rahab, the Old Testament’s female super spy
Rahab the Harlot is one of the earliest examples of an intelligence operative, and her exploits illustrate the importance ordinary individuals can have in military operations...
Rahab the Harlot is one of the earliest examples of an intelligence operative, and her exploits illustrate the importance ordinary individuals can have in military operations...
Was St Augustine's thought a forerunner of liberalism? The works of the historian of Late Antiquity, R.A. Markus, are a good place to unearth the foundations of secular society...
Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III and mother of Edward I, was perhaps the most important female political figure in 13th-century England. Described as a ‘virago’, or female wa..
Once one of the most famous Jewish figures in the Western world, the novelist Israel Zangwill, chronicler of London's East End, went onto play a leading role in the early history o..
Gustaf Mannerheim's rise from a troubled youth to Finland's iconic wartime leader illustrates how leadership is forged by both personal traits and the unpredictable tides of histor..
An agricultural labourer who shot to literary fame for his rustic verse in the 19th century, John Clare was feted as ‘The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet.’ ..
Gerald of Wales was a 12th century chronicler whose mixed heritage and thwarted ambitions led him to pen vivid, controversial accounts of Ireland and Wales, forever shaping percept..
Queen Isabella, daughter of the king of France and wife and mother to kings of England, was an intelligent and shrewd political operator in an era of conquest and civil war...
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, a major figure in 19th Century European politics, kept the Polish Question alive...
Decades before Rupert Murdoch ruled his news empire, his father, Keith Murdoch, was recognised and feared as a media and political powerbroker...