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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power. ‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion by ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The volte face has been astonishing. Until 2017, or thereabouts, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was seen as the hallmark of Islamic puritanism, where compulsorily veiled women were forbidden to travel ...