Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce and Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of ...

Whether as ‘Gloriana’ or ‘Good Queen Bess’ Elizabeth I is one of England’s most iconic monarchs, but did her gender shape her ...

Though its meaning may have shifted over the centuries since its Anglo-Saxon origins, ‘middle earth’ is far from fantasy.

European intelligence agencies assisted Mossad’s Wrath of God assassination campaign, while their governments condemned them.

People have been waiting decades for this’, Trump said on the day of the files’ release; as a biographer of both Kennedy and ...

A strong anti-graft sentiment runs throughout Ghana’s history, as its leaders have sometimes discovered the hard way.

In Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea, Luka Ivan Jukic makes the case for Mitteleuropa as a time that land forgot.

By 1240, it was a fully fledged military order of the Catholic Church (established on the pattern of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller) and its forces were active in many theatres of war, especially ...

Though the European single currency may seem modern, its roots go back to the 9th-century Christiana religio coins of Louis the Pious.

The William Hogarth painting Humours of an Election (c. 1755), which is the main source for "Give us our Eleven Days". In 1750 England and her empire, including the American colonies, still adhered to ...

Zog I was probably the strangest monarch of the 20th century. The Times called him ‘the bizarre King Zog’ and his biographer, Jason Tomes, quotes descriptions of him ranging from ‘a despotic brigand’ ...

The history of British involvement in Malaya goes back to 1786, when the East India Company established a trading post on Penang Island. Sir Stamford Raffles founded a British settlement on the island ...