Whenever I am asked a difficult question about Scottish history, I point out I am merely a history writer and not  a professional historian ...

Moncton's annual literary will honour late Acadian novelist and playwright Antonine Maillet with a special ... is from a quote in Maillet's book, Mon Testament, and translates to "The big maybe." ...

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Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, writes in a new book that he intends to be reincarnated outside China and called on the Tibetan people to reject any successor chosen by Beijing.

The household was likely to have been that of a wealthy farming family. The abandonment of the Antonine Wall earlier in the century meant there were no Roman forts nearby at the time the dwelling ...

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