How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? William
In 1688 the Stuart King James II was ousted from the throne by his daughter Mary and her husband Wil
With the accession of James I and VI in 1603, Scotland was assimilated into the composite monarchy o
When charting the rise of Scotland’s global influence, few events have been as tragically remarkable
In the 9th century AD, two years after the Holy Roman Empire was established in Western Christendom,
While in the West the legends of King Arthur were being born, a Buddhist tantric magician of immense
India’s transformation of the ancient world is indisputable, and tangible evidence of this can be fo
Having garnered absolute power through bloody means, Empress Wu Zetian begins seeing apparitions, ha
The inculcation of Buddhism from India as the state religion in China was enabled by the violent ris
It was actually India, not China, that was the greatest trading partner of the Roman Empire. During
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating ar
With Richard Nixon now in the White House and not wanting to have his presidency consumed by Vietnam
With the death of JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson took over the Presidency and immediately had to wrestle wit
Vietnam, or Indochina as it was known, had been under French colonial rule since the nineteenth cent
Following the fall of Batista, the Cuban revolution took a more radical turn. Castro was not a commu
It’s 1959 and the swaggering Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro, has just overthrown the unpopular Am
The Korean War was a brutal affair. It is estimated that 3,000,000 people were killed in the conflic
Whilst we know the Korean Peninsula is split into two quite separate countries, North Korea and Sout
By 1943, the price of rice was beyond unaffordable for most in Bengal, and people were dying in the
In 1942, in the midst of the Second World War, the British administration feared that Japanese force
By the end of the Spanish-US war, the Philippines was on the menu. Two battles played out simultaneo
