Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English by Elisabeth van Houts is a sympathetic biography of the woman who would be king.

The first Irish Republican bomb detonated on English soil was not intended as an act of terrorism, but its impact – and death ...

In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war.

Would St Augustine have considered the US attack on Iran a just war? The pope and the vice president are split on the matter.

As ancient Rome was divided by civil war Cicero found himself torn. Caesar was his old adversary, but he was also powerful, and it was politically and personally expedient to support him.

The Life and Times of Britain’s First Female Cabinet Minister by Nan Sloane illuminates an overlooked trailblazer of the ...

The legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable ...

The two leading figures of the South American wars of independence were Simon Bolivar in the north and José de San Martín in the south. Their paths met in Ecuador, where the modest and unselfish San ...

A passage from book 12 of The Odyssey, in Emily Wilson’s acclaimed translation of Homer’s epic, sees the hero Odysseus, known in Latin as Ulysses, warn his men of an impending challenge: She [Circe] ...

This year, the US looks back four centuries to an intrepid band of refugees making a perilous home in New England. The Mayflower pilgrims had been outlaws in England, members of an underground church ...

How one company opened an entire sub-continent to economic and political development, with huge ramifications for India, Britain, and the world. Between 1709 and the mid-19th century the East India ...

Russia’s entry into the global economy was met with glee by international firms in the early 1990s. The exodus has been just as sudden. When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, its centrally planned ...