For over a hundred years British and Indian troops were engaged on the North-West Frontier of India, policing the tribes, mounting expeditions, and guarding against the ever-present threat from Russia. Populated mainly by Pathans, one of the fiercest warrior races on earth, the Frontier came to be k[...]

In the Sudan in 1881 an obscure son of a carpenter pronounced himself the 'Mahdi' or 'Guided One of the Prophet', the long-expected Messiah of the Islamic faith. His influence was so strong that Egypt (co-ruled by Britain and France) was plunged into war. Robert Wilkinson-Latham provides an absorbin[...]

"Designed to be unsinkable" according to Shipbuilder magazine, the Titanic pushed back boundaries of technological achievement in the golden age of ocean- going travel.This narrative history drawn from the largest photo archive in the world tells and shows in many never before seen photographs, the [...]