As Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a status update on the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK, David Musgrove ...

I spoke to a woman who had been outside the gates of Buckingham Palace on VE Day chanting: ‘We want the king!’ and later doing the conga in the street. That gave me a real idea of the sense of ...

On 22 November 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. At the time of his death, Kennedy had served fewer than three years as president, but within US politics, he was a ...

“Hitler has only got one ball, / Goring has two but very small, / Himmler is rather sim’lar, / But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.” This cheeky wartime ditty mocking the masculinity of Adolf ...

In the early 19th century, a gifted and divisive figure from France became a political giant in Europe – and it wasn’t ...

Rising from the fires of the French Revolution, one young man reached the top of European politics – not through seizing ...

If you killed a man in 14th-century England, there was a good chance you’d get away with it. Not because the law was soft, or justice disorganised — in fact, homicide was a capital offence. But ...