Kashmir, a small valley in the Himalayas, plays an outsized role in the national imaginations of both India and Pakistan.

Chevaliere d’Eon or Chevalier d’Eon? An 18th-century legal dispute between two French spies unravelled into a public battle ...

The remarkable fall of absinthe: from 19th-century ‘Green Fairy’ to scourge of society.

Between 1949 and 1966 the Communist state co-opted the medium for propaganda, and publishing of lianhuanhua boomed. New ...

On 10 December 1948, after months of negotiation led by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ...

The mystery of what happened to the Marie Celeste gripped me as a child. It’s nice to have some mysteries in life though. Lucy Noakes is Rab Butler Chair in Modern History at the University of Essex ...

William Strickland died on 8 December 1598. He was said to have introduced the turkey to England, but the truth followed him ...

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and ...

A new book for the new year is an old British custom, but an old book can be even better.

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us that when it comes to sexuality ...

So when Raúl Castro called for an end to the embargo based on economic and humanitarian grounds in late December, he was ...