Swahili on the Road
How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident.
How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident.
On 5 July 1852 the curtain came down on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa.
How to reform an ancient Greek tyrant? Plato’s final advice to Dionysius the Younger was not well received.
Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David Rooney returns Alcock and Brown to aviation's top flight.
In the early 20th century the prison population in England and Wales was in sharp decline, despite a rise in crime.
Poets across the ages have sought help with their writing – but AI bears no comparison with the divine.
The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.
On 25 June 1922 Black activist Marcus Garvey found common cause with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Italy’s entry into the Great War in 1915 prompted 300,000 men to return to their homeland to join the fight. Were they Italian enough for Italy?
‘Mary, Bessie, James you ken, then Charlie, Charlie, James again...’ Does the litany of kings and queens help or hinder an accurate understanding of Britain’s past?