From ancient conquerors to modern revolutionaries, Iran has produced figures who've shaped history. Join us as we explore the ...

Their Majesties The King and Queen will undertake State Visits to the Holy See and the Republic of Italy - incorporating Rome ...

Born in 1866 in Pune, Cornelia Sorabji saw opportunities when others merely saw her gender. She went on to overcome societal ...

An early sketch by the master landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837), not previously recorded in literature on the ...

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Halfway through the night at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, there was a strange phenomenon: a choreographed song-and-dance number with a “James Bond” ...

The just-concluded London Book Fair 2025 saw its largest-ever participation from China, drawing strong interest from global ...

Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah on running out of money – and his take on the toppling of statues of controversial ...

BBC Mastermind viewers have been left fuming at the long-running quiz show for it's 'low standard' subjects and demanded a rule change ...

She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her ...

Tiang knew it might be hard to land an English-language publisher for a story collection from a Singaporean author writing under a pseudonym. But there was one publisher, a small press in Britain ...

Today, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the ...

Rising of 1916 against British rule in Ireland has both political and literary significance. It marked one of the foundational moments in European history that led to the liberation of the Irish state ...