The shocking murder of its royal family in June 2001 changed the course of Nepal’s history. On the massacre’s 25th ...

In the 1960s Iran and Israel were on friendly terms. One Iranian writer, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, saw the Jewish state as a model ...

On 31 May 1786 Paris relished the humiliation of Marie Antoinette as the Affaire du collier de la reine concluded in court.

For H.P. Lovecraft there was nothing as familiar – or as frightening – as the past. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, ...

This third element (the House of Commons) only came to be based on universal manhood suffrage in 1918, and universal adult ...

S uch is the fame of Pericles that, when we talk about the Hellenic world, we sometimes talk about ‘Periclean Athens’, ...

‘Which moment would I most like to go back to? The Resurrection. Whatever happened, there has been no more consequential ...

Young could be forgiven for this comment, for he was unaware that for decades the ministerial offices, salons, academies, and ...

In Churchill and the Crown, Ted Powell explores the interwoven lives of Britain’s Marlborough man and the monarchs he served. There have been many notable courtier-politicians in British history. From ...

The British countryside of the 1930s was a happy hunting ground for the British Union of Fascists, where recruits sometimes came with titles and estates.

Though he didn't invent it, the guillotine was named for a French doctor, who died on 26 March 1814. The man who gave his name to Madame la Guillotine or The Widow (La Veuve) was born at Saintes in ...

According to legend while the Cunard-White Star Line’s new Hull Number 534 was under construction at the John Brown and Company’s shipworks on the Clyde no women were allowed anywhere near it in case ...