sit upright without any lounging or sprawling, look directly at the speaker, maintain an attentive pose, and a placidness of ...

Walter Whitman was born on May 31st, 1819 in Long Island, New York, the second of nine children and grew up in Brooklyn. He did not receive much in the way of education, working as a printer, ...

Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of ...

Historians may no longer talk of a single Celtic culture, but in The Celts: A Modern History Ian Stewart crafts a unified history of a changing idea. This is a big, ambitious, erudite book. After a ...

Thousand-headed is Purusha, thousand-eyed, thousand-footed. He covered the earth on all sides and stood above it the space of ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia under one roof. This incredible library was forgotten for ...

The Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer and Matchmaking ...

In 1789, Catholicism was the official religion of France – five years later worship was suppressed. The French Revolution posed problems for religion, but religion also posed plenty of problems for ...

Annabel Teh Gallop is Head of the Southeast Asia Section at the British Library.

King Lewanika’s invitation to the coronation of Edward VII was intended to stabilise British relations with the Barotse ...