The French Revolution, which took place between 1789 and 1799, is one of the most significant events in the world.

Thousands of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress and prison, in Paris on 1789. The Bastille symbolised the ...

Read It From Thomas Carlyle’s gripping history to Charles Dickens’ enduring tragedy and the rise of literary superheroes, the ...

Those watching the cultural news of the past week probably saw the festivities in France on July 14, Bastille Day, which is ...

The storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789, is seen as a defining event in the French Revolution. But how does the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

Today is Bastille Day, the French national day, commemorating the beginning of the Revolution in 1789, which led to the end of the monarchy in France and the establishment of the First Republic.

The poet, the opera, and the Terror: when art dares to confront the violence of power. How one artist portrays the French ...

The French Revolution Pamphlets collection at Brandeis University's Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department consists of 94 documents (three linear feet) published ...

Explores how architect of French Revolution ended with his neck on the block Author Colin Jones, a professor of history at Queen Mary University, creates a vivid minute-by-minute portrait of Paris ...