When he was captured by the Nazis in 1944, George Lascelles – the eldest nephew of King George VI – became one of Colditz ...

Grown in India and sold into China, opium generated substantial revenues for British rule – and much more Lin Zexu was a ...

An early medieval text describes rituals intended to protect pregnancies and address the loss of a child. Historian Elinor ...

History's Greatest Dishes serves up a feast of facts about some of the past's most remarkable delicacies. Expect culinary ...

The pope – the supreme pontiff, the Bishop of Rome, God’s representative on Earth – is the head of the Catholic Church worldwide, the leader of a faith with 1.2 billion adherents today. Modern popes ...

The origins of the Blue People of Kentucky go back to 1820, when a French immigrant named Martin Fugate came to the United States. Settling at Troublesome Creek, he married an American woman, ...

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Martin Luther King gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech towards the close of the March on Washington on 28 August 1963. This event was backed by a fractious coalition of African-American civil rights ...

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The era directly following the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in c3100 BC, the Early Dynastic Period sees a capital city established at Memphis. Several ephemeral kings ruled in the 7th Dynasty, ...