Although peace as always brought with it a certain economic relapse, the push to create an all-steam, ironclad fleet based on the lessons of the recent war in Crimea carried with it a fresh focus on...

In 1864, the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi visited London. The visit was one of the great events of the age. Vast crowds welcomed him wherever he went and lionised him. But Britain was...

By popular demand, the APS Summer Festival has been extended by 4 weeks. The eclectic artistic line-up shall now also feature The Comedy Knights, Alex Bezzina & Band, the Big Band Brothers, and...

The National Book Council would like to announce the launch of a media scheme for prospective exhibitors of the Malta Book Festival 2020. Applicants may send in their application forms by 14...

An English visitor to Gibraltar in 1830 found the town so squalid that he thought the only thing to do was to pull it down. Poor sanitation made it even unhealthier than Valletta. In the same...

The Catholic Church, however, scarcely welcomed an influx of anti-clerical radicals, and the modus vivendi between Maitland’s regime and the Catholic hierarchy was assisted by a shared suspicion...

The China Cultural Centre in Malta in collaboration with the philanthropic website of Life Tree Books (www.lifetreebooks.org.cn) is publishing free access to 9 colourfully illustrated children's...

Blue-water empire Author: Robert HollandPublisher: Allen LanePages: 439pp Around 1815, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Lord Bathurst told his Cabinet colleagues that the...

The National Book Council is inviting established and emerging poets to participate in the second edition of the Doreen Micallef National Poetry contest. The contest was launched last year by the...

On the outbreak of war with revolutionary France in February 1793, Royal Navy warships in the Mediterranean were both depleted and dispersed. The key concern was how to bottle up the French fleet...