In 1943 letters reporting starvation and death in Bengal began to reach Indian soldiers serving the British overseas. Despite ...
From the printing press to the internet, the spread of information has changed the world. How do we recognise an age defined ...
The Victorian reading public had access to a vast array of classical literature from Asia in multiple translations by experts ...
A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular by Jonathan Sheehan places bloodletting at the heart of Western thought ...
The final fraudulent Cottingley fairies photograph was taken on 21 August 1920 by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.
For the thousands of foreign visitors who travelled behind the ‘bamboo curtain’ to visit Mao’s China, hospitality workers – guides, drivers, waiters, chambermaids – were unofficial ambassadors for the ...
Born in the Ukraine in 1879 and later hailed by one admirer as the greatest Jew since Jesus Christ, Lev Bronstein became famous under another name. From 1902 he called himself Trotsky, adapted from ...
On 4 August 1626 three ships dropped anchor in the road off the leeward coast of St Christopher (St Kitts) in the Caribbean. A hundred English settlers rowed ashore, come to make their fortunes in ...
In April 1550, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain, halted Spanish conquests in the Americas. He had scruples; could they be overcome? A panel of over a dozen theologians, officials and ...
When her fleet of galleys and cargo ships left Calais the 18-year-old Queen of Scots and Dowager Queen of France burst into floods of tears as she said farewell to ma chère France and sailed on a ...
The legend of Mahatma Gandhi places his non-violent Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience, and Quit India movements at the heart of India’s independence. There's more to the story. Mohandas Gandhi’s ...
Keir Hardie came into the world in singularly unpromising circumstances. The illegitimate child of a farm girl named Mary Kerr or Keir (herself illegitimate) and, probably, a local miner, he was born ...
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