Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...

How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...

In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary ...

The final, tense meeting between the sage and the tyrant was steeped in animosity, to judge by the account in Plato’s Third ...

On 5 July 1852 the curtain came down on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa.

In the pleasant Evenlode Valley, where Oxfordshire borders on Gloucestershire, was born, in 1732, the man who was destined to play the part of Augustus to Clive’s Caesar in the British empire of India ...

On 5 July 1852 the curtain came down on Barney Barnato, one of the richest men in South Africa. Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the ...