Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages through the Viking World by Davide Zori proves that if you want to understand the Vikings, you ...

O n 2 June 1924 President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act, also known as the Snyder Act, granting ...

The Cyrillic alphabet is celebrated across the Slavonic-speaking world, but not only as an appreciation of literacy – it has ...

A servant fixes a young woman's hair. Detail of a fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, c.50 BC. The women of ...

Ireland’s experience of partition informed the attitudes of people across the island towards British plans for Palestine.

When the English and Nazi German football teams met for the first time on British soil in 1935, the game was not the headline ...

Once Rome’s main artery south, for centuries the Via Appia has been taken as proof of Roman greatness.

Sea of Troubles by Ian Rutledge and The Damascus Events by Eugene Rogan watch as the ‘sick man of Europe’ turns violent. Massacre of Christians in Syria, French illustration, late 19th century.

Following his accession, the majority of James I’s new English subjects accepted their Scottish king with ‘comforte and ...

In 2020 Britain’s official mapping body, the Ordnance Survey, removed from its library of maps a three-mile walking tour of ...