Lily Maxwell is often missed from the history books, despite being one of the most important figures in the women’s suffrage ...

These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia ...

Ross and Graham explained that Cole, then an emerging jazz artist, asked Troup to finish the tune for an upcoming recording ...

Another great book on Iran that I would add to this list, especially for those with little time to read, is Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know by Michael Axworthy.

A historian’s take on India’s North-South divide ahead of the 2026 delimitation falls short on data and policy insight. An in ...

Outrageous (now streaming on BritBox, with new episodes dropping on Tuesdays) is the story of the Mitford sisters, six aristocratic Englishwomen whose lives overlapped with a who’s-who of 20th-century ...

Fragility: A History of Plaster by Alain Corbin (Polity, £12.99) If we now live in the Digital Age, should we think of the first half of the 19th century as the Plaster Age?

The latest marquee exhibition to open at M+, Hong Kong’s museum of contemporary visual culture, is “Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s-1970s”, a sweeping exploration of Guangdong ...

Rosé now owns this bit of history, and she may continue to further her lead over the two BTS smashes. Her track climbs two spaces to No. 24 on the current edition of the Adult Contemporary chart.

BOOK EXCERPT This book illustrates how a robust cultural milieu in the 19th century modernised Calcutta An excerpt from ‘Modernity in Indian Art: Reflections’, edited by Harsha V Dehejia.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mellon vs Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War by Jill Eicher (Pegasus Books) Debt ...

For Little Rock author Phyllis Hodges, reminding Arkansas children that "everybody has a story to tell" has made a yearslong journey to get her three "living history" books in more than 60 school ...