On the morning of 7 May 1821 an urgent task was performed at Longwood House on St Helena. A day and a half previously, the ...

In April 1636, two aspiring lawyers, eager to make their way in the world, corresponded about the state of affairs in London.

Not long into this essay I found myself wondering if it would have been published if the author were not Julian Barnes. I ...

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Fifty years ago, the blasted bodies of three unmarried siblings, members of the Luxton family, were discovered at a Devon ...

Have you ever suffered from museum blindness? A complete overwhelm at the sheer amount of stuff – often quite similar stuff – ...

At least 26 tourists were killed in a militant attack on the town of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday.

So, Ed Miliband has relented, and decided that after all it is not a good idea to build his green energy revolution on the ...

It was an extraordinary statement, given all the bluster that had gone before it. Tariffs on Chinese goods will ‘come down ...

What does it mean to say ‘never again’? It is etched into memorials, inscribed in textbooks, whispered in the shadows of ...

Ding ding ding! Sparks were flying this morning on Sky News as host Wilfred Frost interviewed the rather combative Home ...