T oothbrushing has been a regular part of most people’s daily routines since the mid-20th century, but it was only a few ...

Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair makes the case for the region. Blair, a British journalist living in Paraguay, tells the stories of nine South American ‘nations’ that either broke up, ...

Donald Trump has often been likened to Aaron Burr, described as ‘one of the most unprincipled men in the United States’. His isolationism, however, owes more to Thomas Jefferson.

When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, the East Indies nationalists seized the opportunity to throw off the colonial yoke of the Dutch and proclaim the independent state of Indonesia which the ...

Anna Maria Angelica Catharina Kauffman was not only a rare example of a highly successful and extremely rich female artist but an adornment of European high society. The only child of an Austrian ...

In the first of a new series, we ask historians one of the burning questions of the day.

The Levant Company, or Company of Turkey Merchants as it was also known, received its first charter in 1582 from Queen Elizabeth. The need for new markets for English cloth and anxiety about access to ...

The Battle of Solferino, fought in northern Italy in 1859, was a decisive episode in the struggle for Italian independence, in the birth of the Red Cross movement and in the creation of the Geneva ...

Roman politics after the Emperor Diocletian abdicated in AD 305 was confusingly complicated as emperors and deputy emperors of the West and of the East contended for power. Among them was Flavius ...

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932 by Ibn Saud. After his death in 1953 he was succeeded by Saud, the eldest of his 45 sons by his innumerable wives. The next most prominent figure in the ...

L.B. as he was called was head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1924 to 1951. Hollywood films inspired a largely favourable picture of the United States over much of the rest of the world and ...