In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his pathbreaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century ...

The Tariff Act of 1890 raised taxes to 49.5% on 1,500-plus items. Championing the move was the “Napoleon of Protectionism,” William McKinley, an Ohio Republican congressman who would be elected ...

In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat, authors of the book The Case That Shook the ...

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

Despite initial mandate to stay neutral, U.S. leaders voted to officially join Allies in the Great War on 1917.

A festival of art, music, talks and pilgrimage is to be held in Shrewsbury to mark 1,700 years since one of the most ...

There is a direct line in Central America stretching back more than a century from US-backed military intervention, to ...

SS Great Britain was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. She was the longest passenger ship in the ...

Pioneering female jockey Hayley Turner announces her immediate retirement from racing as she reveals that she is pregnant.

History, history is not for public schools, it is for those that can afford private education, they know best. That is why rich men make excellent leaders, not to mention really good fairy tale ...

Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from representing Great Britain in next week's Billie Jean King Cup fixtures to undertake a training block. The 22-year-old is coming off an impressive run at the Miami ...

It was the epicentre of a vast empire once and was called ‘the empire on which the sun never sets.’ That was in the 18th & ...