The first Irish Republican bomb detonated on English soil was not intended as an act of terrorism, but its impact – and death ...

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.

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

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

As Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of liberty to an enemy within. On 14 July 1789 an insurgent Paris crowd ...

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, ...

It was not until a year after the armistice that the remaining American divisions were withdrawn from Korea, on August 18th, 1954.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 ...

The first of three articles that proved the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery was published in The Times on 16 August 1921. Jewish people have been blamed for everything from the Black ...

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 ...

On the eve of his battle with Maxentius to decide who was to be the undisputed Emperor of Rome, Constantine lies asleep in his tent. An angel descends from the night sky, holding a glowing golden ...