Set Europe ablaze.” Those were the instructions of Prime Minister Winston Churchill when in June 1940, as Hitler stomped across Europe. With the beaten back British forces unable to mount any kind of ...

The family of an elderly British couple being held captive in Afghanistan has pleaded for the Taliban to allow them a phone ...

The debut book of a Russian spy arrested by the FBI and released in a spy swap is part horror story, part fairy tale.

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NEW claims that the Irish and UK governments knew that the Enniskillen Bomb was going to happen has left "another layer of lies ...

Will Anora nab the Academy Award for best picture? Can Demi Moore edge out Mikey Madison for best actress? And how many ...

The women were recruited by the American Red Cross in the United States and all had to have a college education and great social skills, said historian Hattie Hearn Research into the lives of ...

Remarkable – and relatively speaking a blessing – that the wake-up call for Britain to take defence seriously again did not ...

“The Holocaust is slipping from memory to history, and its lessons are too important, especially in today’s world, to be forgotten ... She said she remembers one Nazi saying: “Take that woman also.” ...

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By chance, Romney, a rare-books collector, comes upon a 1778 novel by a woman who turns out to have been one of Jane Austen’s ...

The Vegan Tigress, a new play by Claire Parker, shines a spotlight on the largely-forgotten feminist fairytale writer Mary De Morgan (1850-1907). And the timing is particularly apt. The show opened, ...