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 ...

Great Britain was not alone in this line of thinking ... Trade became triangulated during the mid-1600s between the British Empire, its colonies, and foreign markets. This fostered the development ...

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 ...

The British are facing a mid-life crisis. By the end of World War II Britain faced grave problems. The war had stripped Britain of virtually all its foreign financial resources, and the country had ...

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 ...

and historians are inclined to wonder whether the Empire would have been possible without them. “My nurse was my confidante,” wrote Sir Winston Churchill; though he loved his mother “dearly, ...

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Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from representing Great Britain in next week's Billie Jean King Cup fixtures to undertake a training block.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 ...

While Theodore Roosevelt said America should “speak softly and carry a big stick”, its President today is unafraid to raise ...