University of Toronto Press and the British Library today announced co-publication of a new art history book, The Art of the ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, ...

Simon Roper explained how the standard British accent was developed in the 1700s by aristocrats to distinguish themselves ...

Maldon Books, Bridge Books and Queen’s Park Books are among the nine winning independent bookshops crowned ahead of The ...

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

The history of coffee begins in Ethiopia, where legend credits its discovery to a goat herder named Kaldi in the 9th century.

The remote South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic are a perfect place to find new and rarely seen species, and a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition in the region is finding many of those species ...

From the mid-19th century onward, Irish and Indian nationalists forged strong personal and associational connections, recognising how both societies suffered under British imperialism. Famines, ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has arrived at the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday.

Separatist insurgents hijacked a train in Pakistan on Tuesday and took its nearly 500 passengers hostage in an audacious ...

Nigel Biggar, CBE, is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and author of the bestselling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2024). He ...