JAPAN’S hosting of the Summer Olympics during the Covid pandemic was a huge challenge. However, the upcoming Osaka Expo is a ...

Pictures taken by Queen Alexandra, who has been dubbed “the most celebrated royal photographer of her day”, are to be exhibited at Buckingham Palace. Photography was still in its early days when, ...

One of the highlights of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival is a celebratory stroll with our unsung heroines.

On the anniversary of her birth in 1871, we celebrate Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, the pioneering South African activist known as the 'Mother of Black Freedom. ' From performing before Queen Victoria to ...

A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: List of Removed Books from Nimitz Library Released: April 4, 2025 Publication Title Subjects Date 1 How to be an ...

Upon earning a law degree from St. Petersburg University in 1891, Lenin became a leader ... made the crossing aboard a Swedish ferry, Queen Victoria. While most of his comrades suffered the ...

Brock designed the profile of Queen Victoria which appeared on coinage from 1891, and after the monarch’s death he was appointed to sculpt The Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace, which ...

In 1891, Kosminski threatened his sister with a knife and was ... Some suggested he could be a doctor, barrister, a member of the royal family or a costume-maker to Queen Victoria. Someone even ...

The Duke of Kent, who was father to Queen Victoria, died in 1820, leaving the matter of the young monarch’s education to her mother and the opportunistic Conroy. While it remains unclear who was ...