Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989 by Andrea Horbinski reveals the colourful ...

Death came with a test: could you pronounce the Sicilian word for chickpea, ciciri? By the morning 2,000 had been slain and ...

An Investigative History by Caroline Sharples explores the public fascination with the dictator’s demise and the tall tales ...

Although the reception was not always warm, the English East India Company made several attempts to trade in Japan in the ...

Once we get over that, we can start to write a history of emotions. Equally, of course, we must not imagine that the feelings ...

The organisers of the Indian displays at London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 had a problem: they urgently required a taxidermy elephant. They needed the elephant as a frame on which to display a lavish ...

Ever since 1873 when the German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, following the evidence of Homer’s Iliad, found the remnants of a grand metropolis – now Hisarlik in modern Turkey – ...

It is more than 60 years since the All-African Peoples Conference convened in Accra, Ghana in 1958. It was a notable event in the history of Pan-Africanism. Organised by two leading Pan-Africanists, ...

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term were nothing if not controversial. This was especially the case in the United States’ northern neighbour where his talk of Canada becoming the ‘51st ...

The morning of January 21st 1793 was raw and foggy in Paris. Although there was no traffic on the streets, it took a solitary coach one and a half hours to trundle the two miles from the medieval keep ...

Early in 1638, Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate found itself mired in a combination of embarrassment and crisis. Requests were coming into its headquarters in Edo – present day Tokyo – for troops to lay ...

Le circonflexe est mort, vive le circonflexe. Last week all hell broke loose when a story emerged that the French language was about to lose its circumflex – the ‘ˆ’ symbol that appears above some ...