The National Famine Way™ Roadshow goes on tour during March 2026 visiting seven locations along the route of the long ...

Patna is not a city that rushes to impress. Narrow lanes, crowded markets, river breezes, and sudden glimpses of history ...

Famine is still being measured as if the world has not changed. By relying on fixed mortality thresholds, today's ...

Plaque for William Sharman Crawford (1780-1861) unveiled in Crawfordsburn at the Old Inn ...

The most brutal sieges of all time are some of the most horrifying events in warfare. Take a look at the most infamous in ...

2024: Record crowds flooded Savannah to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the St. Patrick's Day Parade. John Forbes was elected Grand Marshal and led the parade. 2025: Parade crowds were much smaller ...

Frank Dikotter, Dutch by origin, is a scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has the good fortune to live in Palo Alto. It is there that he wrote this fifth book in his series on the ...

Pádraig Lenihan’s outstanding new book includes events and figures seared into Ireland’s collective historical and cultural ...

Background As the threat of child malnutrition increases, the focus remains mostly on short-term consequences. Long-term ...

Why does Bengal have a sweet for every occasion? Ishita Dey’s book explores how the treats have been shaped by distress, caste, craft, gender.