The Chinese folk tale The Snail-Shell Girl tells the story of a poor man who falls in love with a beautiful woman who lives ...

On 23 November 1929 Nigeria’s women rose against the colonial authorities, demanding a return to traditional values and the ...

Helen Castor is author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Allen Lane) ...

There is another figure whose role in the second Viking Age was equally pivotal: Thorkell the Tall. Arguably the most ...

It was notable that when Iran decided – unusually – to flex some hard power towards Israel in April 2024, a number of key ...

National security during the Second World War was threatened by the ‘enemy within’ – working-class women, suspected of betraying their country by taking in deserters and escapees.

Nile Green is Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA and author of Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah (W.W. Norton) In the mid-1500s, the ...

The original Crystal Palace was the centrepiece of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Built in what is now Kensington Gardens, it was an astonishing prefabricated construction, created on ...