Lombard was born in 1866 in Wimbledon. From 1899-1908, he was chaplain to the British Embassy in Petrograd. Formerly St Petersburg, it was changed to Petrograd in the First World War, as the name ...

which I don’t hesitate to place alongside British First World War poets (for example), to an English-speaking readership. We Were Here was selected by PEN Ukraine as one of its books of the year ...

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" ...

Milosz left Warsaw shortly before the end of World War II, when almost the entire ... find a translator as gifted as Robert Hass, one of the best poets of his generation. Though having no Polish ...

The birth anniversary of Egypt’s late pioneering vernacular poet Abdel-Rahman Al-Abnudi (11 April 1938-21 April 2015) was ...

A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...

VE Day on May 8, 1945, was an event that remained in the memory of all those who witnessed it. It meant an end to nearly six ...

He said: “The government stopped selling shipwrecks 20-odd years ago, but I always quite fancied owning one ... World War Credit: Wrecksite SS Almond Branch was a defensively armed British ...

Americans have never stopped debating the balance of powers, the rules of enfranchisement or how widely to apply the exhortation, “All men are created equal.” ...

It is really one of the most dramatic episodes in American history: Paul Revere and others rushing to warn the countryside, ...

If you have ever wondered what happens when a superhero’s physique meets a theater kid’s emotional depth, Alan Ritchson is your answer.

I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference ...