When Brian Stonehouse, a British spy posing as an artist, was freed from the concentration camp, he made drawings to document ...

The worst was yet to come. As delegates to the Commonwealth conference departed (Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus stayed back in Enugu), the old Nigeria was to die that weekend. That was the weekend of ...

Frederick Forsyth’s account of the Nigerian Civil War, mainly from the Biafran lens, is perhaps one of the most riveting you would find. Yet, it is remarkably deficient in its one-sidedness, for which ...

Singapore Botanic Gardens is the world’s only Unesco-listed tropical botanic garden, and entry is largely free. Wander ...

History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the ...

Archival discoveries including a 19th-century autobiography transform our understanding of Shadrach Byfield, an English ...

Groups of pink-clad women protesting outside asylum hotels say they are standing against sexual violence by asylum seekers ...

Iranian officials signaled that fast trials and executions lay ahead for suspects detained in nationwide protests, while the ...