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.

The story of abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, portrayed here with his family by Joy Labinjo, is among those highlighted in Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition The often-forgotten contributions ...

As part of its quest for world domination, Amazon has bought the creative rights to fictional British spy James Bond.

Research into the lives of American Red Cross servicewomen in Britain during World War Two is already uncovering "largely ...

This episode delves deep into a forgotten history of slavery ... has now put the EU in his crosshairs. British singer-songwriter speaks to BBC 100 Women about life as an independent artist ...

Watch daredevil cyclists race through an underground parking garage, see films from around the world or dig through thousands ...

Suse Lowenstein’s son was killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. An artist, she responded ...

Creative control goes to Amazon, which could do to Bond what Specter never failed to do — kill off the superspy in a way that ...

The next wave of overlooked female surrealists on the market suggests buyers can’t get enough of the previously forgotten ... show of her latest charge, the British artist Maeve Gilmore ...