Alleged occupants of Earth’s interior have since included mammoths, super-civilisations, and the aforementioned UFOs. Kept ...

The wartime government’s programme of deliberate smoke production was an attempt to protect Britain from the Luftwaffe; for ...

Dunsterforce was the result. The mission was an exceptionally challenging one, but Britain’s military planners believed they ...

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski is Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at UCL and Principal Historian of the Polish History ...

On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s by Thant Myint-U captures the optimism and ambition ...

Knell continuing his attack as before, so maliciously and furiously, and Towne … to save his life drew his sword of iron ...

A t the core of environmental history lies a simple feedback loop: that humanity and the environment are in a perpetual and ...

In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...

On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of ...

The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community ...

What makes a state? Is it its people, its borders, its government, or does it rest on recognition from international powers? Across the 19th and 20th centuries, the process by which states have been ...