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

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

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.

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 legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable ...

In hiding and soon to be sentenced to death in absentia, Eugène Pottier completed a poem In June 1871 that still serves as the rallying cry for the Left worldwide: L’Internationale. Its themes of ...

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, ...

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is a myth of enduring love that has inspired artists, writers and composers for centuries. Orpheus and Eurydice, hand in hand, walk away from the fiery underworld and ...

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest hour. Hugh ‘Stuffy’ Dowding was a man of independent mind. He believed in ...

During the immediate aftermath of the First World War, G.M. Trevelyan was an impressive, though characteristically modest and unassuming, figure in the small Hertfordshire community where he had at ...

The city burned on 18 July AD 64. Of the early Roman emperors, Nero alone rivalled Caligula in his reputation for sheer unbridled viciousness. Of the early Roman emperors, Nero alone rivalled Caligula ...