It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.

Kit Kowol’s first book, released at the end of 2024, achieves the rare feat of fundamentally revising our understanding of British politics and society during the Second World War.

They site that George Washington's lack of connection to the State means his image is "less meaningful" as a symbol to the ...

The North American Vexillological Association — it brands itself as the world’s largest club for flag enthusiasts — has settled on five basic rules for good flag design. They even distilled the rules ...

Before Nelson, no decisive blow was made against the French. But with Nelson came a series of crushing defeats, most notably at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and Trafalgar in 1805. All hopes of invasion went up ...

History does not really repeat itself, not exactly. But with both a bachelor's and a master's in history, I can't help but ...

The age of empires seemed to be a thing of the past. But now there are signs that some world leaders hanker after imperial ...

Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US, writes Alan Rusbridger. Please don’t shrug and say it’s n ...

The Chagos fiasco may yet do for Keir Starmer. As well as being calamitous in itself, it confirms the negatives that voters ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...