Whether you explore the galleries or the new Silk Roads exhibition, start your weekend at the British Museum with late opening this Friday. From the Rosetta Stone to Japanese netsuke, discover a ...
Background This report offers a review of recent significant acquisitions by the Library and of collecting activities. It does not describe the large volume of acquisitions of both Australian and ...
We are the charity that cares for hundreds of historic sites in every corner of England. Some are internationally famous, some are local treasures, and all are there for everybody. There are over four ...
The “world's first drug cartel”, as Ghosh describes it, not only solved the trade imbalance, but created a major source of revenue for the British Empire. Opium flooded 19th-century China despite ...
The recent comments by popular historian William Dalrymple at the Indian Express’s Idea Exchange have caused ripples among Indian historians and intellectual circles alike.