Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of the 33rd U.S. President Harry Truman, remembers his grandfather as "grandpa" who was a ...

NATO is meeting this week at a moment of very real crisis. Donald Trump’s second presidency has thrown the globalised world order into chaos. Old certainties are being torn up. Trump threatens to ...

With the memory of World War Two still very raw, the spring 1947 royal tour of South Africa was seen as the perfect ...

David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age.

In January 1940 an organisation called CEMA – the Council for the Encouragement of Music and Art – was founded, initially with money from a charitable trust – money that was soon matched by Treasury ...

Prem Prakash’s 'History That India Ignored' revisits forgotten rebellions, unsung heroes, and challenges the dominant ...

If you walk along Waterloo Road, south past the Old Vic towards Elephant, then you can't help but spot the gathering of ...

(Image: archive) Sir Godfrey Collins, Greenock’s MP for 26 years, who died in 1936, was secretary of state for Scotland from 1932 until his death, but he was not a member of the cabinet, holding only ...

Sam Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands is an imperious view of the British Raj's collapse, redeemed by its forgotten stories of independence fighters ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

Teachers are continuing an exam-season walkout over plans to ditch A-levels and make up to 43 redundancies at a college known ...

Rachel Reeves is stuck between two insufferable abstract nouns: profligacy and austerity. The chancellor stands accused by those to her right of overborrowing, imperilling the nation’s ...