Caught between the antagonistic states of India and Pakistan, Kashmir is stuck in geopolitical limbo. Its location – and its ...

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

It is ironic that while to most people today the too rampantly over everything, to his own name ‘Bougainville’ suggests only an un- generation in England as well as in France distinguished tropical ...

“‘The newcomer to Aden,’ says an official pamphlet, ‘this famous fortress and port presents rather a forbidding aspect.’ This is, I think, an understatement,” writes James Morris. 1 “At first sight ...