In 1999, the Red Cross opened the Sangatte camp near Calais, for migrants sleeping rough in and around the northern French city. The camp was closed in 2002 by French Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy ...

Queen Mary, also known as Bloody Mary, the oldest daughter of Henry VIII and the half-sister of Queen Elizabeth, was heartbroken when she received the news, in 1558, that the French had recaptured ...

Calais has long been a gathering point for migrants. A purgatory between two countries, both of which unwilling to accept them. Since 1998, thousands of migrants seeking refugee status and dreaming of ...

The notorious "Jungle" camp on the outskirts of the French port of Calais has for years been a staging post for migrants trying to sneak across the Channel to Britain on lorries or trains. Following ...

(Paris) – French officials regularly subject adults and children living in migrant encampments around Calais to degrading treatment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Five years ...

There are few exercises as intellectually satisfying as seeing a celebrated episode in history deconstructed, reinterpreted and corrected in the light of a new or unconventional approach. That is ...

The Great Wall of Calais, the giant barrier that the UK is to build in order to keep the Jungle's refugees and migrants at bay will not achieve its aims argues academic Sean Lang in The Conversation.

The notorious "Jungle" migrant camp on the outskirts of the French port of Calais has for years been a key staging post for migrants trying to smuggle across the Channel to Britain on lorries or ...