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

This year, the US looks back four centuries to an intrepid band of refugees making a perilous home in New England. The Mayflower pilgrims had been outlaws in England, members of an underground church ...

It was not until a year after the armistice that the remaining American divisions were withdrawn from Korea, on August 18th, 1954.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 ...

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 ...

Charles Dimont traces the origin and history of ‘God Save the King’ (or ‘God Save the Queen’), the British national anthem. The origins of “God Save the Queen” are lost in obscurity, but there is no ...

Ramsay MacDonald presided over his last cabinet on June 5th, 1935. He resigned two days later, on June 7th, 1935. From an unpromising start as the bastard son of a Scots farm girl, James Ramsay ...

That the United States declared its independence in July 1776 is well known; that the British state commissioned, but never published, a counter-declaration is not. The American War of Independence ...

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

The new threepenny weekly was launched as Punch or The London Charivari, implying a mixture of cheerful humour and biting satire. Punch was from Punch and Judy, while the word charivari meant a ...

Andrew Petersen uncovers the city that was once the Palestinian capital and suggests reasons for its decline in the 11th century. A view of Palestine’s old capital of Ramla by by Dutch cartographer ...