Harold Macmillan, the Conservative prime minister of the day, may have declared that Britain had ‘never had it so good’…
The sun was already setting on Britain’s empire and its status as a major player on the world stage when…
The full story of the 1953 coup d’etat in Iran has yet to be told but it is generally agreed…
One of the world’s most enduring and disastrous conflicts is that between Israel (consistently supported by the USA) and Palestinians…
If ever there was a blot on the USA’s political escutcheon, it was paranoid anti-communist activity as the Cold War…
The vast subcontinent of India was the prized jewel in Britain’s imperial crown, but controlling British India was never straightforward.…
Any head of state convicted of treason and sentenced to death by firing squad is entitled to feel overwhelmed by…
When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived home from Munich at the end of September 1938 flourishing the text of…
The Weimar Republic that followed German defeat in World War I proved a switchback of political fortunes. In the 14…
Over the centuries, the Spanish monarchy learned very well how to use religion as an instrument of social control. Catholicism…