Starmer’s U-turns don’t stop at welfare reform – he is a veritable boomerang of a Prime Minister. In an interview with Tom ...

The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a ...

The PM previously said the image of the Tory doyenne was taken down because he does not like 'pictures of people staring down ...

Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan ...

While not colonised by European empires, Iran's oil reserves meant it became a key focus for British and Western imperial ...

Hardie was a pacifist who opposed the first world war on that basis, and so was Ramsay MacDonald, who briefly lost his ...

David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age.

There is no overestimating the triumphalism in the Israeli Prime Minister’s circle, but the cascading effects of the war ...

Prem Prakash’s 'History That India Ignored' revisits forgotten rebellions, unsung heroes, and challenges the dominant ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

Marianne Clement OBITUARY She was born in sunlight. Arriving in Larchmont, New York in March, 1949, Marianne was the eldest of five children to Louis and Ann Sganga.

They are expressly not the “best” history books ever written: no one can possibly have read the tens of thousands in English alone that would be required to begin forming such a judgment.