Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...

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

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 ...

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

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest hour. On 16 January 1926, the BBC broke the news that a murderous mob was ...

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest hour. On 16 January 1926, the BBC broke the news that a murderous mob was ...

On 9 March 1522 the Swiss Reformation began with an ‘ostentatious eating of sausages.’ T he Reformation in Switzerland began ...

Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power.

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

This superbly ominous story is the earliest English record of the legend of the Wild Hunt. This legend, found in folklore ...