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.

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 ...

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

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

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

The plight of Constantinople in 1453 bore a close resemblance to that of West Berlin in 1953. The Ottoman Turks, eastern representatives of a religion, a culture and a way of life utterly different ...

Tsar Alexander II oversaw a set of reforms which held out the prospect of modernising Russia but whose failure paved the way for revolution. Winston Churchill and the Wartime Coalition 1940-45 In ...

Far from being ‘unready’ (an unfortunate byname, meaning ‘poorly counselled’), Æthelred was a more capable king than his reputation would have us believe, a theme taken up in the May issue of History ...

N ext time you reach for a bottle of painkillers, reflect on the agonies endured by surgical patients before anaesthetics ...