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 history of a changing idea. This is a big, ambitious, erudite book. After a ...

In the first millennium BC the Brahmin class organised as a community and assumed responsibility for learning the sacred Vedas. What are the origins of India’s priestly caste? As an ancient Indian ...

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 ...

King Lewanika’s invitation to the coronation of Edward VII was intended to stabilise British relations with the Barotse nation. Instead, it exposed the cracks in the imperial veneer. In March 1902 ...

Annabel Teh Gallop is Head of the Southeast Asia Section at the British Library.