From the mid 19th century the French stock exchange was based in the Palais de la Bourse, in the heart…
On Friday September 24 1869 Wall Street was paying close attention to the price of gold. In the previous three…
Mid-Victorian global economics evolved under the ever-increasing arch of the British Empire. The City of London was the Empire’s engine-room,…
At the beginning of the 18th century Europe was in political chaos and by 1710, after a decade of war,…
The fiasco of the Afghan presidential election of 2009 is an object lesson in the consequences of blithely marching into…
When British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to support America’s invasion of Iraq he was on shaky ground - under…
Guantanamo Bay on the southern tip of Cuba has been an American naval base ever since 1898, used from the…
As the 1992 general election approached, Britain was sliding into recession. The electorate were more than ready for change after…
The background to what became known as the Iran-Contra affair of the mid 1980s lay in US President Ronald Reagan’s…
The so-called ‘winter of discontent’ of 1978-1979 which brought down Jim Callaghan’s Labour government marked a low point in Britain’s…