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 ...

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

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

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

The discovery of the remains of Richard III is an archaeological find of the highest importance and the University of Leicester richly deserves its moment of glory. Much less deserving is the Richard ...

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 ...

The British had expected to be fighting the French, in face of the aggressive policies of the Emperor Napoleon III. Instead, their first European war since 1815 found the two old enemies bizarrely ...

Essays are no longer the be-all and end-all of history assessment; but the ability to write a good essay is still vital. Robert Pearce gives some advice. Writing a good essay involves the sort of ...