As Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a status update on the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK, David Musgrove ...

German armed forces signed an unconditional surrender, bringing the Second World War in Europe to an end. To celebrate the ...

Although British soldiers in the Second World War sang about the Führer only having “one ball”, that did not necessarily make ...

Historian Mark White explores whether John F Kennedy would have defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964 – and how his second term ...

Rising from the fires of the French Revolution, one young man reached the top of European politics – not through seizing ...

In the early 19th century, a gifted and divisive figure from France became a political giant in Europe – and it wasn’t ...

In the cradle of civilisation, illness wasn’t just a medical problem — it was a supernatural one. That’s why Mesopotamians ...

In medieval England, violence was a reality of everyday life — but theft? That was deliberate, unforgivable, and more likely ...