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

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

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 ...

It was not until a year after the armistice that the remaining American divisions were withdrawn from Korea, on August 18th, 1954. The Korean War took a long time to sort out. It began in June 1950 ...

The spectacular ‘lost city of the Incas’ high among the Andes mountains in Peru attracts so many visitors today and their presence causes so much damage that a limit has had to be put on their numbers ...

Matthew Lynn finds a sobering historical parallel between 1873, a traumatic year for the global economy, and the present day. The New York Times, as it so often does, described the scene perfectly: ...

The industry, enlightenment, history and soft-power of Birmingham.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became a lightning rod for the mass protests which overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979, but the causes of the Iranian Revolution lay elsewhere. On the afternoon of 11 ...

Unquestionably Philip II was a loyal son of the Catholic Church. He famously told Pope Pius V in 1566 that, 'rather than suffer the least damage to religion and the service of God, I would lose all my ...

The story of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, as it is popularly told, is all about imperialist oppression. In Latin America the destruction of the Aztec empire has become a mix of passion play and ...

The end of the First World War did not put a stop to the suffering of civilian populations caught up in the conflict. The plight of Germans, Russians, Austro-Hungarians and Italians during the 1920s ...

Despite the popularity of shows like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Britain’s Gypsy Travellers still face longstanding prejudice, warns Becky Taylor. A wet cold December day at Dale Farm Traveller site in ...