Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst's "Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914" sets itself a deceptively narrow task: to tell the story of the First World War’s outbreak through ...

At their last meeting SI Cannock welcomed the inspirational Gary Fear who since the outbreak of war in Ukraine has made 12 ...

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan. This long-sought discovery resolves a ...

In the summer of 1967 Stella Rimington, the bored wife of a junior diplomat in New Delhi, was approached by another British official with a proposition: would she be interested in “helping out” in his ...