The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald by Walter Reid finds the romance behind Labour’s great betrayer.

On Lady Day, 25 March, some 800 villagers were due to take part in the centuries-old annual custom of the Tichborne Dole, in which a gift of flour was distributed by the local landed family, the ...

Strategically important during the Second World War, US soldiers could not wait to leave Greenland. I n April 1941, as it moved closer to direct involvement in the Second World War, the United States ...

Edward Lee was born in Kent in 1482 and lived a rather unremarkable life as a priest until the age of 35. In 1517, however, he made the decision to visit the small university town of Louvain, a few ...

As Malaya headed towards independence, the spectre of identity politics loomed. What place for cosmopolitan Penang and its ...

During the Crimean War soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

The Campo de’ Fiori, near the spot where Julius Caesar was murdered, is Rome’s marketplace and also the place where heretics were executed. It was there that the faggots were piled high for the ...

Joan of Arc was put on trial twice, once before and once after her death. The records made at these trials are often used as evidence of Joan’s own words – but whose voice was really recorded?

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London.

In the fight against rising river pollution by big corporations, legal cases have had to get creative. O n 8 October 2025 nearly 4,000 people joined a claim submitted to the High Court. Described in ...

On 13 February 1692 the Macdonalds of Glencoe were put to the sword by troops loyal to William III. Nobody was held to account.

Compassion from the Kremlin often proved as short-lived as its critics. In Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, ...