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The first Native American troops to enlist for Federal service were fighting to return to their own lands.

José Guadalupe Posada, who produced over 20,000 engravings during his career, was born on 2 February 1852.

On the 100th anniversary of its publication, James Joyce’s Ulysses is widely regarded as a groundbreaking work of fiction, but can literature have any impact outside the confines of culture? 

Eyewitness reports of European wars and the febrile mood of nations as they tipped into conflict.

Which king was nicknamed Beauclerc? When was the Barbados Independence Act?

Cloves, grown in Indonesia, crossed the globe in the Middle Ages, showing how interconnected the medieval world was.

Europe’s Roma were the victims of Nazi genocide during the Second World War, but their persecution did not end in 1945. 

The support and camaraderie of close-knit communities were a double-edged sword. Nothing was private and reputations could be ruined at the twitch of the curtain.

Flowers formed from pith paper captured the imagination of British society in the 19th century, sparking a search for the elusive ‘rice paper’ plant.