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 ...

Meet David Olusoga, the historian reshaping our understanding of history. His work reveals overlooked narratives with ...

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

a climate which made the selection of the regional and country winners undoubtedly the most closely-run and tightly-contested in British Book Awards history. The finalists speak to what makes ...

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

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

Harper also avoids, for the most part, praising or condemning the various banners that have represented the country. Past ...

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

Utpal Kumar’s book challenges the ideological conditioning that views India’s historical trajectory as one of feudal ...

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 ...