In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...

US president Donald Trump came over all French this weekend, tweeting 'He who saves his Country does not violate any Law', a ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

A picture of the glory days of Awadh in the eighteenth century, the book draws connections between global events of the time, ...

Boston’s first bike path was formally opened along the Charles River in 1975. Stretching from the Museum of Science to the ...

With contributions from Harriet Walter, Christopher Eccleston, hip-hop artist Testament and French street artist P-Boy, Simon ...

A group of experts consider the accessories from the past 100 years that changed how we carry our things — and ourselves.

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. But chimeras are not just tales. Here's how some scientists have been ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

France's film dubbing industry accounts for 15,000 jobs, including actors, translators, sound technicians and artistic ...

Despite opposition, the Municipality of Trifylia, southern Greece, uprooted a historic tree, tied to the Greece's War of ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...