Who should claim Scotland’s royal jewels? After the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots, the answer was not clear cut.

Like Lalande, many writers argued by analogy, a rhetorical technique that then punched considerable weight. Fuelled by ...

To the Ottomans, who took it in the 15th century, it was ‘infidel Smyrna’, the last Christian majority city in Asia. There ...

The French Resistance sought liberation above all else. But what should the postwar nation look like? The question was as old ...

What happened to the French airmen in the Second World War who bombed France to help liberate it? D uring the Second World ...

Tyrant and usurper: the last wills of Richard II and Henry IV give rare insight into the medieval monarchs who wore the crown ...

The wedding was celebrated at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island, on a crisp, sunny day. A breeze whipped up whitecaps in the bay as waves of publicity powered by the groom’s ...

‘One blood demands one reich,’ proclaimed Adolf Hitler on the first page of Mein Kampf. The result, in May 1938, was the German invasion of Austria, the so-called Anschluss. Yet one of his ...

Kenneth Arnold was flying a small plane over Mount Rainier in Washington when nine bright objects began tracking him at high ...