The first written references to prehistoric rock art were by the Chinese philosopher Han Fei in the third century BC. Europe ...

Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism by Adrian Wooldridge looks for signs of life in the liberal movement. This would certainly be a noble task; the world really does need ...

The sinking of the White Ship was a disaster for England’s King Henry I, but it was also felt deeply by his subjects.

In these circumstances the General Strike of 1926, also precipitated by the miners, was readily comprehensible in terms of ...

In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...

In the 1970s private investigators in the UK came under attack for their distasteful methods and dubious legality. What did ...

He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not only ...

With the culling of USAID those days are over. I n 1941, with Europe and Asia convulsed by war, Henry Luce, founder of TIME ...

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...

As Spain and France moved into Morocco, the people of the Rif Mountains united to form a new state. For five years they ...

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was established in 1909 to exploit the Persian Gulf oil field, which had been discovered the year before. The name was later changed to Anglo-Iranian. By 1950 the company ...

The ‘long 19th century’ was a period of relative peace that began arguably with the Congress of Vienna in September 1814 and lasted until the outbreak of the First World War in July 1914. Emperor ...