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

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

Rider Haggard after hours spent digging on Bradenham Heath in Norfolk searching for the gibbet cage in which the body of the ...

Who is the most overderrated person in history? Henry VIII. Nasty piece of work and not as clever as he thought he was.’ ...

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

In 1776 the Founding Father John Adams stated that future commemorations of the United States’ independence ‘ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, ...

After he was formally condemned to death in Moscow, the Mexican government offered Trotsky refuge and protection, on December 6th 1936. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 Leon Trotsky organised the ...

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 ...

Disaster struck on the morning of 7 May 558, when repair works to the Sancta Sophia caused it to collapse. View of the Hagia Sophia by Jan Luyken, engraving, 1681. Sepia Times/Universal Images Group ...

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest hour. Hugh ‘Stuffy’ Dowding was a man of independent mind. He believed in ...

On the eve of his battle with Maxentius to decide who was to be the undisputed Emperor of Rome, Constantine lies asleep in his tent. An angel descends from the night sky, holding a glowing golden ...