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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power. ‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion by ...

Lockwood’s This Land of Promise examines the memoirs and biographies of a selection of prominent refugees from the 16th to ...

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 ...