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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The kings of medieval France were fascinated by the Mongols, who they saw as great empire builders. Eager to learn more, they ...

The wartime government’s programme of deliberate smoke production was an attempt to protect Britain from the Luftwaffe; for the National Smoke Abatement Society, the decision was a disaster. At the ...

On the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a bouquet of two dozen carnations at the front gates. A card, attached with a ...

A cross in the road in Oxford’s Broad St marks the site of the execution. Workmen had discovered part of a stake and some bits of charred bone there, in what had once been part of the town ditch.