Historian and author Ian Stewart picks five of his favourite British history books that tell the stories of a union.

The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of ...

Here Gandhi was building on a reading of colonial power that he first articulated in Hind Swaraj in 1909. One of the most ...

The conjecture that the Irish, like the other inhabitants of the British Isles are of Hebrew extraction has for many ...

Anthony R. Dolan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist-turned-chief-speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan ...

The street artist snuck a “brilliant” art work into the Met, in 2005. Then it disappeared. Does a former head of security ...

Westminster commemorated the 250th anniversary of what became known as the “Westminster Massacre.” In 1775 two local men, ...

Johnny Vaughan and Gavin Woods uncover jaw-dropping stories from history’s boldest icons in brand-new podcast Bloomin’ ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

EUROPE was rocked by fresh measles fears as cases surged to their highest level in over 25 years. Global health officials ...

Ashok Ogra In the serene beauty of its snow-capped mountains and lush valleys, Kashmir has long been a land of paradoxes ...

Often perceived as boring, history is unpopular with many children as it is often disconnected with reality and there is a ...