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

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.

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

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

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

The women’s army, regarded as superior to its male counterpart, last saw action at Cana on 4 November 1892. Founded in the 17th century, the West African kingdom of Dahomey was a bellicose, ...

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 ...

The new threepenny weekly was launched as Punch or The London Charivari, implying a mixture of cheerful humour and biting satire. Punch was from Punch and Judy, while the word charivari meant a ...

That the United States declared its independence in July 1776 is well known; that the British state commissioned, but never published, a counter-declaration is not. The American War of Independence ...

It was not until a year after the armistice that the remaining American divisions were withdrawn from Korea, on August 18th, 1954. The Korean War took a long time to sort out. It began in June 1950 ...

Charles Dimont traces the origin and history of ‘God Save the King’ (or ‘God Save the Queen’), the British national anthem. The origins of “God Save the Queen” are lost in obscurity, but there is no ...

In the first of our new series of brief biographical sketches, Peter Neville defends Britain's ambassador in Berlin during the years before the Second World War. At nine a.m. on Sunday 3 September ...