Historians may no longer talk of a single Celtic culture, but in The Celts: A Modern History Ian Stewart crafts a unified ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...

The Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer and Matchmaking ...

Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of ...

Thousand-headed is Purusha, thousand-eyed, thousand-footed. He covered the earth on all sides and stood above it the space of ...

Annabel Teh Gallop is Head of the Southeast Asia Section at the British Library.

In April 1945 ten British politicians flew to Germany tasked with investigating the ‘truth’ about Buchenwald concentration ...

Nikita Khrushchev is famous for two key events: the Cuban Missile Crisis, where the superpowers came closest to nuclear war, and deStalinisation. The Cuban Affair, admittedly dramatic and frightening ...

King Lewanika’s invitation to the coronation of Edward VII was intended to stabilise British relations with the Barotse ...

2016 is the year of Utopia, marking 500 years since the publication of Thomas More’s influential text. Central to the celebrations is a timely re-evaluation of the man who stands behind the enigmatic ...

Paul I of Russia was the son and successor of Catherine the Great, who took the Romanov throne away from her feeble-minded husband, Tsar Peter III, and had him killed in 1762, an event which ever ...

They have long had a notorious reputation as the raiders and pirates of the medieval world and certainly it is not unjustified: their raids were fearsome and long-running. However, they were also ...