In the turbulent Republican Party of the late 1870s and early 1880s, Roscoe Conkling loomed as the hard-edged master of ...
In 1945, as Europe celebrated peace, Winston Churchill quietly asked his generals to plan an attack on the Soviet Union. But ...
A new film, starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, dramatises the Allies’ postwar quest to hold the surviving leaders of the ...
The 20th President of the United States had the potential to be one of the greats, according to many – until his ...
Hermann Göring was once Hitler’s chosen successor, and the most powerful man in Nazi Germany after the Führer. He embodied ...
Ancient Roman gladiators are often imagined as chiselled, bronzed heroes of the arena, akin to today’s top athletes. But the ...
Dixon line, he had achieved his escape from enslavement. But the first years of his freedom were marked by fear, isolation ...
Lucretia Garfield, also known as Crete, was the wife of US President James A Garfield and served briefly as First Lady in ...
That’s what renowned barrister, and bestselling historian, Philippe Sands told us, but could you? With the 80th anniversary ...
In 1605, a small band of English Catholics tried to destroy the king, his family and parliament in a single explosion. This ...
Showman and psychic researcher Harry Price turned Borley Rectory into a national sensation, and its infamy as a haunted house ...
When US President James Garfield was assassinated in 1881, his Vice President, Chester A Arthur, assumed the presidency amid widespread distrust. But once viewed as a party insider tied to political ...
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