Author: Gordon Kerr

The recorded history of Brazil is brief when compared to most European countries, having been discovered by Portuguese sailor and explorer Pedro Ál...

From coffee shops to markets, rolling mountains to winding rivers the countries and regions of Europe are many and varied: the cobbles of Venice, t...

Capital punishment for murder was suspended in Great Britain in 1965, an Act finally made permanent in 1969, but remained as the punishment for tre...

Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Art Deco Fashion: Masterpieces of Art highlights artworks from fashion illustrators of the era th...

What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different ideas, p...

The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War...

It began with the horse-drawn carriage and ended with the aeroplane... An era, beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria i...

Having conquered the world's taste buds and established itself as a staple in our daily lives, coffee has mirrored the moods and movements of socie...

During this time of conflict and suspicion, it is perhaps more important than ever to understand the beliefs and philosophies of other cultures. A ...

London,1999. Michael Keats is mourning the death of his wife, killed in a hit and run accident in Northern Italy. His discovery that she had been h...

London,1999. Michael Keats is mourning the death of his wife, killed in a hit and run accident in Northern Italy. His discovery that she had been h...

Each year a flood of visitors come to this decadant, elegant country, to enjoy the pleasures of la dolce vita. Italy has drawn travellers in search...

Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Claude Monet Masterpieces of Art features all of the popular works of this insightful and experim...

On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central co...

The turbulent and chequered past of the world's most populous country is one of the most fascinating in world history, and relatively little known ...

The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st century India is a dynamic nation with a thrusting economy, made up of a varie...