The British have some perennial obsessions ... Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution. Peter ...

The “coalition of the willing” summit, announced by Starmer over the weekend, will be aimed at devising a plan for a post-war Europe to bolster security. The British prime minister has been ...

And you can get direct British Airways flights there from Gatwick ... Its flinty eyes glinted in the tropical sunlight as it craned its long leathery neck into view. Thankfully, unlike the ...

Simple History Uniform of the American G.I. on D-Day Posted: March 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025 From the outbreak of the Second World War, the US Armed forces started to actively ...

With British troops at Tapa we really ... 1,500km from Ukraine. 'Since the war began, many Ukrainian refugees have fled to Estonia and now call the country home. And the Prince will be hearing ...

While the two countries are war-weary, there is little appetite for major concessions to either government’s war aims — such as Russia’s demands for territorial concessions or Ukraine’s ...

The Ministry of Defence in London stressed that this death toll would be Russia’s “largest losses since the Second World War”. It accused Putin and his generals of “prioritising their ...

Fill in your bracket and compare your picks with other readers. 1️⃣ Cold War secrets: A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the height of tensions between the US and curre ...

In the late 1940s, Arctic temperatures were warming and the Cold War was heating up. The U.S. military had grown increasingly nervous about a Soviet invasion across the Arctic. It built bases and ...

“Obviously, if we get involved in a general war with Russia, we’ll be conscripting the population – there’s no question about that.” However, former British Military Intelligence Colonel Philip Ingram ...

These were promptly met by Irish retaliation on British goods including coal and steel. A trade war ensued – and lasted in some form for almost six years. As with Trump today, raising tariffs is ...

More than £4billion has been wiped off the value of Britain’s listed grocers after Asda launched a supermarket price war. Shares in Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer slid as speculation ...