A few weeks after a delirious crowd had cheered Benjamin Disraeli's return from the Congress of Berlin with Cyprus in his pocket, Londoners were able to gaze with wonder at a new token of how Britain...

The China Cultural Centre in Malta is supporting a project called "Online Story Club for Children Around the World Fighting Covid-19" sponsored by the Chinese Soong Ching Ling Foundation whereby...

The National Book Council is hereby announcing the shortlist of books, published in 2019, contending for the 2020 National Book Prize. The National Book Prize and Terramaxka Prize shortlist is...

More than ever, teachers require a clear idea of the art and science of teaching and learning in various educational contexts, Minister for Education and Employment Owen Bonnici said. He was...

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...