The first Irish Republican bomb detonated on English soil was not intended as an act of terrorism, but its impact – and death ...

The first of three articles that proved the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery was published in The Times on 16 August 1921. Jewish people have been blamed for everything from the Black ...

Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English by Elisabeth van Houts is a sympathetic biography of the woman who would be king.

Would St Augustine have considered the US attack on Iran a just war? The pope and the vice president are split on the matter.

In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war.

As ancient Rome was divided by civil war Cicero found himself torn. Caesar was his old adversary, but he was also powerful, and it was politically and personally expedient to support him.

The Life and Times of Britain’s First Female Cabinet Minister by Nan Sloane illuminates an overlooked trailblazer of the ...

The legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable ...

In hiding and soon to be sentenced to death in absentia, Eugène Pottier completed a poem In June 1871 that still serves as the rallying cry for the Left worldwide: L’Internationale. Its themes of ...

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is a myth of enduring love that has inspired artists, writers and composers for centuries. Orpheus and Eurydice, hand in hand, walk away from the fiery underworld and ...

During the immediate aftermath of the First World War, G.M. Trevelyan was an impressive, though characteristically modest and unassuming, figure in the small Hertfordshire community where he had at ...

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 sent a shockwave through Europe, and the Pope declared a crusade. The victorious Sultan Mehmet II, who bestowed on himself the title of Kayser-I ...