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

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

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

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 ancient Mesopotamia under one roof. This incredible library was forgotten for ...

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 ...

‘What historical topic have I changed my mind on? Orality. Historians search for ‘lost’ manuscripts which might never have existed.’ I grew up in Brunei, my mother is from Kedah in Malaysia, and I was ...

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 ...