Imagine the typical Indian evening: a student hunched over a table, notebook open, struggling to come to terms with equations or the reasons behind the Revolt of 1857.

The East India Company was once a force to reckon with, wielding immense economic influence and political might that paved the way for the British colonisation of India. Now, the company has shut down ...

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Florence Nightingale never set foot in India. Yet from a sickbed in London, armed with mortality data and an unstoppable pen, she rewrote the country's sanitary code, slashed soldier death rates from ...

There was a doctor in Chicago years ago named Victor Frankenstein, and one of his jobs was finding medical specimens. When ...

On Sunday 1 February, a yellow, blue and white Sudan Airways jet landed on the runway at Khartoum International Airport. As 160 passengers stepped off the aircraft, they cheered, hugged each other and ...

A Grim Reality in 1859 In the year 1859, a staggering sixty-nine out of every thousand British soldiers stationed in India succumbed to illness—not due to combat, but from cholera, dysentery, and ...

A company which ruled over swathes of India has closed for a second time. The original East India Company was founded by Royal Charter in 1600 and continued until 1874 when it was dissolved by the ...

The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was one of the largest and most dramatic popular uprisings in medieval Europe. But what do we really know about this celebrated event in English history? The rising was ...

One of the most revered figures in American history can no longer be called heroic. But the movement he led can be.

For generations, most Americans knew – and maybe believed – a story about upholstery seamstress Betsy Ross and the making of ...