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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

In 1789, Catholicism was the official religion of France – five years later worship was suppressed. The French Revolution posed problems for religion, but religion also posed plenty of problems for ...

In his memoirs, the American air force general Curtis LeMay reflected on the results of the devastating air raid he had ordered on the crowded central zones of the Japanese capital, Tokyo, in March ...

The British film magnate J. Arthur Rank, who put up close to £600,000 to finance Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, was not unnaturally nervous about how much of it he would ever see back. All visitors were ...