Although George Kennancalled World War I the “seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century, it does not loom large in the national consciousness of United States, wedged uncomfortably between the Civil War and World War II in the popular imagination…

Imagine yourself at a very smart dinner party and the conversation gets round to the issue of Scottish independence. Suppose people whose intelligence and thoughtfulness you’ve long respected, such as Sir David Attenborough and historians Simon Schama…

The Nato Summit in Wales on September 4-5, hosted by David Cameron, is the most important since the end of the Cold War. Nato and the West now face the greatest number of serious, simultaneous and still growing threats since 1989…

Friday, September 19, 2014: 8.30am. ‘Well if they think I’m bloody well going to stand there and salute the Union Jack being hauled down the flagpole at Edinburgh Castle,’ the Duke of Edinburgh snorted as he put marmalade on his toast in the breakfast…

The Scottish independence vote pitted neighbour against neighbour, young against old and even husband against wife in impassioned though generally good-natured debate…

On Tuesday, as Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza celebrated the murder in a Jerusalem synagogue of five Israelis, the Spanish Parliament happened to be passing a nonbinding motion…

ll too often Americans have taken Canada for granted — “Our Giant Neighbor to the North” has been voted the magazine headline most likely to make them turn the page — while Britons sometimes also dismiss Canadians as “our colonial cousins” with barely…

The centenary of the start of the “Meds Yeghern” (Great Calamity)—the Turkish genocide against the minority Armenian Christian population of the Ottoman Empire—has come at an awkward time for the government of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan…

Historic is one of the most misused words in the politician’s lexicon, employed whenever they mean ‘significant’…

The publication of the Prince of Wales’ private letters has backfired on those who seek to belittle him, and revealed the idiocy of the human rights industry…

There can hardly be a more direct connection between military history and current affairs than over the celebration of the 70th anniversary of V-E Day in Russia on May 9…

Incredible tale of how a dapper WWI air ace became the only Hun to escape a British PoW camp…

It’s not often that Queen Zenobia, who ruled the Palmyrene Empire in the 3rd century AD…

The bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo—perhaps the most significant battle in European history—is already being celebrated, despite the crescendo not coming until the anniversary itself, Thursday, June 18th.

Let’s face it: the Emperor of the French represented the Enlightenment on horseback, not some Hitler-style tyrant.

A series of recent controversies have brought to the fore the central question of how much military protocols need to be updated, on both sides of the Atlantic, to accommodate social and political agendas.

The president’s intervention in the EU debate is bad for the UK — and the US.

When I die,’ Mary Tudor is reported to have said just before she expired in 1558, ‘you will find the word “Calais” engraved on my heart.’ As her reputation for political competence expires, Home Secretary Theresa May ought to be saying the same thing.

The last of the 19 heroic pilots who flew with the Dambusters in World War II is dead. Squadron Leader Les Munro, a New Zealander who piloted a Lancaster bomber in Operation Chastise…

The seemingly inexorable rise of Jeremy Corbyn towards the leadership of the Labour Party might seem like a truly extraordinary political event, but in fact there is plenty of historical precedent for what the Left of British politics is going through…

An intriguing Soviet slant on Britain’s wartime elite

It is very rare for an official biography to be also a revisionist biography, but this one is. Usually it’s the official life that the revisionists attempt to dissect and ­refute, but such is the historical reputation of Henry Kissinger, and…

The admonition not to speak ill of the dead is an ancient and honourable one but it has been taken far too far in the case of Denis Healey, who died on Saturday. All too often the obituarists, in articles with headlines such as “Best Prime Minister…

September 11th in New York, then Madrid, then Bali, then 7/7 in London, then Mumbai, then Charlie Hebdo, then Sharm-el-Sheikh, and now Paris, with hundreds of smaller incidents in between.

One of the most important and powerful bodies that the British people will look to for guidance in how to vote in the euro-referendum will be the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and its pronouncements on whether or not staying in Europe…

“For the United Kingdom,” former prime minister Sir John Major told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning, “67 million out of a world population of 7 billion, to break off and head into splendid isolation doesn’t seem to me to be in our interests.”

The auction of Margaret Thatcher’s property this week was an undignified spectacle for anyone who admires her legacy — and raises the question of whether prime ministerial artefacts would be better off in dedicated museums along the lines of…

A former British minister gets it wrong on cabinet responsibility.

Republicans are right to fear demagoguery of the one candidate who makes Hillary Clinton look electable

Paul Bew has achieved the near impossible: he has somehow written a book on an important aspect of Winston Churchill’s statecraft that is totally comprehensive, genuinely ground-breaking and yet capable of being read in an afternoon.

‘I believe and confess that a people can value nothing more highly than the dignity and liberty of its existence,’ Carl von Clausewitz wrote to his patron and mentor, Count von Scharnhorst, when he resigned from the Prussian civil service in order to…

Yet again New Zealand has shown what a truly splendid country it is. In the face of modern fashion, political correctness, Leftist sneers, its prime minister’s urging, and bien pensant accusations of an obsession with the past, the Kiwis have voted by…

Professional, dignified and dedicated: through 64 years of great change, the Queen is indeed our ‘national rock’

Ken Livingstone’s characteristically outrageous intervention in the debate over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party – denying it existed while simultaneously proving that it does – was wrong on all sorts of levels, but one of them was in his grotesque…

Gerry Adams has made an apology to African-Americans for using the ‘N’ word to liken their plight to that of the Catholics of Northern Ireland. ‘Watching Django Unchained,’ he tweeted, ‘a Ballymurphy N****r!’

There are few sights more unedifying in politics than Tory politicians lining up at the TV studios to kick a good man when he’s down, but that is what is happening to Zac Goldsmith right now.

The Prime Minister’s speech at the British Museum yesterday marked a desperate new low for the Remain campaign. He employed cod history, absurd conjecture, total non sequiturs and one straight- forward untruth to argue that the course of British….

‘I could not consent to the introduction into our national life of a device so alien to all our traditions as the referendum,’ Clement Attlee told Winston Churchill in May 1945, ‘which has only too often been the instrument of Nazism and Fascism.’ The Ref

She is rightly seen as the most remarkable ruler to have worn a crown between Charlemagne and Napoleon—but not for the usual reasons.

Dear Diary, I made some big mistakes in the EU referendum campaign.

I hope that Americans who know what self-government means to a free people will rally to the cause of an independent Britain.

Fathers’ Day on Sunday will rightly celebrate the vital role fathers play as the bedrocks of society. And for people whose parents are no longer with them it can be a doleful time of reflection and a reminder of loss.

On Thursday February 24, 1848, all Europe was in uproar. King Louis-Philippe of France was overthrown in Paris where the mob looted the Tuileries palace. “Everything was broken up, looted and pillaged,” …

There is a fascinating book to be written about Winston Churchill’s relationship with the concept of a United Europe. Unfortunately, for all its hype, Felix Klos has written only the first part of it, and not, in fact, the most important part either.

On Easter Sunday, May 6 1867, the Reform League pressure group had a difficult decision to make. Would they obey the diktat of the Home Secretary, Spencer Walpole, and not hold a huge meeting in Hyde Park to call for Reform, or would they defy him?

The centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme today will be a sobering and humble acknowledgement of the awful price men paid when they went to fight in the Great War, but it ought to be more than that too.

He might seem too modest and polite to be a Man of Destiny, but that is what Michael Gove now is, and it’s partly down to what he keeps in the large shed at the bottom of his garden.

History judges most PMs by one thing only: the manner of their exit. Today Cameron seems a failure, but look closer and his successes — from gay marriage to fighting Islamism — mount up

There is no law of politics that states that a party must live forever. If the circumstances that brought it into existence change fundamentally and the party cannot or will not adapt, it will die.

Of all the many splendid opportunities provided by the British people’s heroic Brexit vote, perhaps the greatest is the resuscitation of the idea of a CANZUK Union.

No one can say that the catastrophe that has just engulfed the Labour Party with the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn on a thumping 61.8 per cent of the vote – including 59 per cent of full party members – was not entirely self-inflicted.

This campaign is historic, but for all the wrong reasons – I fear for what America might become over the next for years

People despised Ronald Reagan when he was elected too, but he went on to be one of the greats. So let’s suspend our ire, for a couple of months at least

The 2016 American presidential election, which has just produced the greatest political upset in living memory, is hard to find precedents for in recent history, but that is not true of the intervention in the American political process by Russia.

When a new American president is elected, the world likes to test him within the first few weeks or months of taking power. The witness of history is almost universal in this, so much so that the phenomenon cannot be accidental.

Standing over six foot tall, with a large and unruly shock of hair, the President-Elect saw himself as the champion of the common people against the educated elites, while his enemies – of which he had a very large number – saw him as an unsophisticated..

“Russia is not a superpower, it’s a super problem,” the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Linas Linkevičius, said on November 18, ten days after Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States.

The news that General Mike Flynn has become National Security Advisor has worried some Americans but delighted others, not least (for both groups) because of his stated objections to the Iranian nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration…

There is a great sickness at the heart of Western society when its leaders either cannot or will not denounce evil when they see it.

2016 has been a momentous year. The UK’s Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump confounded the expectations, while the wars in Syria and Yemen caused more bloodshed. BBC Radio 4’s Today programme asked top historians for their assessment of the year

“The way in which the Commonwealth War Graves Commission keeps cemeteries is absolutely unrivalled in the world.” Historian Andrew Roberts reflects on the work of the CWGC.

After the surrender of Italy to the Allies in September 1943, the Italian Fleet was apportioned between the Allied powers and absorbed into their navies.

The number who died in the appalling violence following India’s independence and its partition is still disputed, but most historians believe it was a million civilians or more.

Last weekend, John McDonnell told Andrew Marr that he thought there was a “lot to learn” from Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. Jeremy Corbyn leapt to the Labour shadow chancellor’s defence, praising Marx as a “great economist”.

Theresa May went to Halifax to launch her manifesto on Thursday, a constituency that has voted Labour since 1987 but which will almost certainly go Conservative on June 8.

“Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and apart from the mainstream…..

Although Winston Churchill and George Orwell never met or even corresponded, the American military historian Thomas E Ricks has linked them in a book subtitled The Fight for Freedom.

The Tories used to be the party of Europe but once Thatcher realised she was dealing with a ‘rotten lot’, we were on the road to divorce

“The Red Army could have defeated Nazi Germany without Allied help,” records The Times of London, “according to two thirds of Russians, who are adopting an increasingly positive view of Joseph Stalin’s wartime leadership despite the enormous casualtie…

A conflict that still casts its shadow over all our lives, says Andrew Roberts

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will be 70 tomorrow, which will be an ideal time for a 12-year-old wrong to be righted. At the time of her marriage to Prince Charles on April 9, 2005, a jittery Palace – worried that she would be unpopular – announced that..

The Times of London report that Mata Hari, the notorious World War One double agent, owed her downfall to MI5 rather than to the French secret service comes at a time when the British domestic security service could do with some good news, even if …

An article this week in the British Daily Mail this week was entitled “Did the British plant a bomb at the 1940 World’s Fair to kill two NYPD officers and bring the U.S. into World War II?” It was one of those classic newspaper headlines to which the …

The centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, has been the big military history story in the news this week, with the British press covering it far more extensively than any other Great War centenary story, …

Only the previous year, the Tory prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, had called a general election he hadn’t needed over the issue of Britain’s trading relations with the rest of the world, and although the Conservatives had been returned as the largest …

Coming to power in their thirties by defeating an ultra-Right attempt to take over France, these handsome politicians were well-read and highly intelligent, having enjoyed the finest education that the country had to offer.

We ask 20 questions of leading historians on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on the Tudors …

Acclaimed historian Andrew Roberts reflects on the significance of the document which signalled British support for Zionism

“For long I have been a convinced Zionist,” said Lord Balfour on July 12, 1920 at a meeting at the Royal Albert Hall in London held by the English Zionist Federation under the chairmanship of Lord Rothschild to celebrate the conferment of the League of ..

And still it goes on, the rumbustious pantomime of insult and egotism that first rolled into the White House one year ago, when businessman and reality television star Donald Trump found himself inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States…

Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, fifth Marquess of Lansdowne (1845–1927), personifies the positive qualities of the aristocracy. The reason these people were given fine educations, enormous privileges and almost unlimited leisure was so that they…

The news that HRH Prince William is going to visit Israel is to be wholeheartedly welcomed. A long-standing Foreign Office taboo has been broken, only four months after Theresa May’s extremely warm words about Israel at Lancaster House during the celebrat

David Olusoga, the historian who presents the Civilisations series on the BBC, has become the latest high-profile figure to take aim at Winston Churchill.

A scholarly and well written article in National Review Online (“The Naval War of 1812: TR’s Forgotten Masterpiece,” April 28, 2018) by a neophyte writer Moshe Wander addresses Theodore Roosevelt’s seminal work The Naval War of 1812 and the effect it …

Somewhere that military history is constantly in the news—or at least in the newspapers—is in the obituaries of old soldiers. With the generation who comprised the generals and colonels from World War II now almost completely gone, …

Military history has been much in the news in India this month because it was twisted by Narenda Modi, the Prime Minister and leader of the ultra-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, in a blatant attempt to besmirch his great rival, the Congress Party …

Although Prince Harry’s marriage last week to Ms. Meghan Markle was not a military occasion, the groom and best man wore uniforms and more than 250 servicemen from units with storied military histories took part, so I think it’s acceptable to report …

Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, and I are looking towards a magnificent, newly built edifice on the skyline of the Nottinghamshire-Leicestershire border when we meet in May, and he becomes wistful. ‘I wish my father could be here for the open…

If any Labour supporter was beginning to hope that the party had managed to draw a line under the row over anti-Semitism, the vote of no confidence in Joan Ryan MP, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel, by her local party will have abruptly disabused …

The Green Party is calling for a four-day week to fight stress, the new scourge of our times. Instead of damaging the economy in this way, I would like to propose the Winston Churchill Stress-Busting Technique. No-one in British history was under ….

The centenary of the armistice that ended World War I on Nov. 11 inevitably raises questions about the United States’ involvement in that conflict, which cost the lives of 50,585 Americans and wounded 205,690. SEE ALSO Video length 1 minute 37 secon…

Andrew Roberts is the author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny. He is also the bestselling author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945, Waterloo: Napoleo…

In his attempts to have a bust of Oliver Cromwell removed from Parliament, Labour MP Stephen Pound is presumably trying to make a cheap political point about the ill-treatment of Catholic Irishmen in Cromwell’s campaigns.Yet if it had not been for Crom…

Simcha Rotem, one of the last-known surviving fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April-May 1943, died in Jerusalem on December 23, 2018, aged 94. His death prompted a good deal of global coverage, since the story of the Ghetto Uprising—not to be…

Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza and Master of the Horse to Napoleon, came from an ancient Picardy family and was the son of a general. He was a sixteen-year-old soldier when the French Revolution broke out, but survived despite …

The Royal Mail in Britain is often held up as an example of meticulous accuracy and research, but not this month when it got its military history so disastrously wrong as to announce a new stamp purportedly showing Allied soldiers wading ashore in Norm…

Readers of The Times (of London) this month were surprised to read the headline “The British Heroes Honoured by Adolf Hitler.” Was some terrible, nationally-humiliating scandal breaking about Britons who were secretly working for the Nazis during World…

John McDonnell could not be more wrong in branding Winston Churchill a ‘villain’ over his actions towards the striking miners of Tonypandy in November 1910, but his statement has far more profound implications than merely a long-standing historical …

At 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, Winston Churchill was looking out of the window of his Ministry of Munitions, toward Trafalgar Square in London, waiting for the great bell of Big Ben to sound, telling Britons that World War I was finally over…

The moment when a prime minister announces his or her resignation is always an important one historically, so it is legitimate to consider Theresa May’s legacy now that it is about to pass from the realm of present-day current affairs to that of future…

The means by which Providence raises a nation to greatness,” Edmund Burke observed, “are the virtues infused into great men.” How lucky Britons were to have people of the virtues of Burke and Winston Churchill when their country needed them. How desola…

To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history,’ General Bernard Montgomery, commander of Allied land forces, told his troops on the eve of D-Day, ‘and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of …

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former foreign secretary, has stated that if Boris Johnson refused to resign as prime minister immediately after losing a no-confidence vote in the House of Commons next month, “he would create the gravest constitutional crisis…

resident Emmanuel Macron of France has stated that closer Anglo-American ties post-Brexit would come at the cost of what he has called “a historic vassalisation of Britain”. Is he right? In stark contrast to the EU, the United States has never attempt…

Who could have guessed that Boris Johnson’s brave and correct decision to prorogue Parliament for four weeks would serve up so many rich and enjoyable ironies for the British people? What pleasure he has inadvertently given us. There is Shadow Chancel…

This war has caught us at our worst,” wrote Margot Asquith, the prime minister’s wife, in her diary on October 26 1914, “and now that shrapnel is killing an entire generation, we are left staring at God.” Simon Heffer, for this comprehensive history of…

Winston Churchill and Marshal Carl-Gustav Mannerheim, the father of modern Finland, had much in common, which engendered mutual admiration. They were both aristocrats, cavalrymen, immensely well-travelled (including in India). Both were Great War soldi…

Give me London, Paris or New York,’ Winston Churchill said in 1937 when contemplating where he could live in the world away from his beloved Chartwell in Kent. Certainly Paris played a hugely important role in his life. He visited the French capital …

The humiliation that has befallen the United Kingdom over the past three years and four months as the direct result of the refusal of our political class to respect the EU referendum of June 2016 needs to be investigated by an official committee

Britain’s establishment coalesced around appeasement and bared its teeth at those who dared to oppose it.

The atmosphere in Great Britain in early July 1940 was taut, brittle, nerve-racked. Nazi Germany had crushed France in less than six weeks in May and June, forced the British Expeditionary Force from the European continent at Dunkirk …

To succeed pre-eminently in British public life,’ observed the great journalist and political commentator Malcolm Muggeridge, ‘it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or a bishop.’

In early October 1933, Winston Churchill published the first volume of Marlborough: His Life and Times. The one-million-word book, published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938, took him as long to research and write as it took Marlborough himself …..

War leaders have always tried to learn the lessons of the past. But deploying history in conflict is a path strewn with pitfalls as well as opportunities, argues Andrew Roberts

In less than two weeks the British people will have the honour of being able to do something quite remarkable in history – deliver a stinging, unmistakeable rebuke to an evil ideology.

Dear Boris, Hallelujah! The historian in you will have been relishing all the dates that we heard on Thursday night, with constituencies returning Tory MPs that have not done so since 1931, 1922, even 1918.

Historian and journalist Andrew Roberts introduces our look back at the significant events of the past 10 years.

The year 2020 will be a momentous one in British history, but not for the reasons most people assume.

“Nothing can save England if she will not save herself,” Winston Churchill told his countrymen on St George’s Day 1933. “If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.”…

In the great debate over whether Britain should return the Elgin Marbles to Athens – as Greece is demanding as its price for signing off an EU free trade deal – no-one seems to have asked the Marbles themselves.

The popular historian Erik Larson has done it again.

The outbreak of Coronavirus has prompted a good deal of interest in the Spanish Influenza that killed so many people at the end of World War One.

For over two centuries, no one has known the final resting place of one of Napoleon’s favorite generals, Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, who disappeared during the French invasion of Russia in 1812.

As though the negotiations over Britain’s departure from the European Union are not complicated and contentious enough, a group of French historians have now made an official request to the British Foreign Office …….

Oooh la la! The news that a new biopic movie about General Charles de Gaulle is about to be released showing him making love to his wife Yvonne shortly before the Germans invaded France in 1940 has left the normally-relaxed French all of a fluster.

It is a sobering thought, as Boris Johnson emerges from self-isolation, that coronavirus would probably have killed Winston Churchill had he caught it any time between his first serious bout of pneumonia in May 1943 and his fourth in February 1945.

DURING Friday’s VE Day celebrations Prince Charles will read the words his grandfather King George VI wrote in his diary about the historic moment war ended in Europe 75 years ago.

The themes Prime Minister Winston Churchill pursued that day in 1945 were central to his whole political philosophy, writes Andrew Roberts

The legacy of our culture is unsurpassed in human history; to ignore it is an act of rank self-hatred

The British liberal elite and its media acolytes in full lynch-mob mode is a truly disgusting sight.

The Cenotaph, Britain’s memorial in Whitehall to her dead of the two world wars, has been boarded up to protect it from desecration during the demonstrations this weekend. The statues of Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Peel, Henry Dundas, Earl Haig ……

As Vera Lynn passes away, Andrew Roberts argues that the singer’s contribution to the national effort should not be underestimated

Churchill’s faithful and most trusted political advisor was indispensable to the British war effort.

It is easy to see why the PM wants to cut out the media, but he will regret it if he does

Local people should decide on the future of place names, not the petty tyrants of the Red Guard

It gets more ludicrous with every passing day – and more sinister. Take the case of Professor Patricia Simon, from Marymount Manhattan College in New York, who made the mistake of failing to be sufficiently enthusiastic in the course of a Zoom meeting.

The Iron Lady’s critics are still resorting to irrelevant and dated attacks that won’t dent her reputation

Last weekend The Sunday Times exposed allegations of murder by a rogue SAS unit in Afghanistan. But Andrew Roberts argues our special forces deserve protection from scrutiny, as their enemies almost never play by the rules

What is the point of the European Union? Only a few years ago such a question, especially coming from a British Brexiteer such as me, might have been written off as simply provocative rudeness from an ideological foe.

Tearing down the heroes of the past risks creating an atomised society that is more divided than ever

The Left-wing rioters who are about to usher in a Donald Trump victory are treading a well-worn path

The House of Commons was in a restive mood as one MP after another, from both sides of the aisle, rose to attack the government for its performance in the crisis.

When our forefathers sat around the fire in their caves telling stories about the famous mastodon hunts of yesteryear, they found it easy to do, because their listeners always wanted to know the answer to the eternal question “What happened next?”

A historic slander When two great British institutions launch simultaneous attacks on the Greatest Briton, something is going on. The pincer assault by the BBC and National Trust on Sir Winston Churchill’s reputation crossed a line.

Unicef’s donation of thousands of pounds to tackle hunger in Britain is a shallow political gesture

Boris Johnson has sealed his place in British history as a ‘weather-maker’ Prime Minister. Historians tend to separate those premiers who make the political weather

If we had a robustly self-confident country, we would not find moral equivalence in the betrayals carried out by this evil traitor

Bridgerton’s portrayal of Queen Charlotte has prioritised fiction and fancy over the chance to tell the true story of an admirable woman

The shadow of 1912 hangs heavily over today’s Republican party. The Republicans lost out to the Democrats after Theodore Roosevelt continued to campaign on a ‘Progressive’ ticket although he had been beaten in the primaries

The disgraceful scenes that took place on Capitol Hill last Wednesday are of course primarily the fault of President Trump’s deliberate incitement.

Andrew Roberts reviews This Sovereign Isle by Robert Tombs

Plans to give the public a say over monuments are a blow to the woke Left’s censorship of our history

History suggests that no two nations’ relations ever deteriorate so much that it becomes impossible to find common ground if both perceive that a third nation’s ambitions threatens them more.

BORIS JOHNSON has been criticised for taking power naps of half an hour or so after lunch occasionally. I have been taking naps – my wife says I can’t call them power naps until I’m powerful enough to deserve it

One of the great mysteries of history has re-emerged this week: the fate of the Roman Ninth Legion (Legio IX Hispana), which seemingly disappeared around AD 108, never to be seen or heard of again.

The newly-released movie The Dig starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, based on the superb novel of the same name by John Preston, has focused attention on one of the great mysteries of Anglo-Saxon history: who was the great warrior ..

Military history burst onto the news last week with the statement of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany justifying the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany as an apology for Operation Barbarossa

On March 5, 1946 – 75 years ago today – Winston Churchill delivered a speech in the small Midwestern town of Fulton, Missouri, that was fundamentally to alter the way that the world saw itself.

People who are driven to a mental state whereby they no longer want to live should surely turn to therapy, not Oprah

Woke critics are trying to denigrate the eminent Brit, engaging in falsehoods along the way.

Princess Diana or Wallis Simpson? The fallout of Harry and Meghan’s mega interview recalls previous palace scandals.

It was capitalism that gave us the vaccines, as the immoral European Union is discovering to its cost

Lord Northcliffe laid down the essential features of British popular journalism that we see now and influenced journalism across the globe. By the time of his tragically early death at 57 he had founded the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and had also owned The Times and the Observer. “The three things that are always news are health things, sex things and money things,” Britain’s greatest press baron told his staff.

The devotion between Britain’s wartime premier and its greatest modern monarch

Would Britain have done better to stay out of the Second World War?…

Winston Churchill woke up on July 26, 1945, with what he described as ‘a sharp stab of almost physical pain. A ­hitherto subconscious conviction that we were beaten broke forth and dominated my mind… The power to shape the future would be denied me.’…

Evil racist or champion of the international courts? The progressive Left cannot have it both ways…

The historian Darryl Cooper has argued in an interview on Tucker Carlson’s show that Winston Churchill “was the chief villain of World War II,” which would be both interesting and indeed shocking were his thesis not based on such staggering ignorance and disregard for historical fact that it is safe to disregard completely…

Ambushes by night, missions to blow up bridges, extractions by submarine—real-life heroics behind enemy lines…

As the Government introduces its bill to expel the 92 hereditary peers from the House of Lords, we should be appalled at the way an efficient and elegant part of the British ­Constitution is being sacrificed on the altar of Labour hypocrisy, party advantage and class prejudice…

As the example of UNRWA so painfully illustrates, we can’t depend on the post-war framework anymore to keep us safe

David Petraeus, who led allied forces in two wars, assesses the situation in the Middle East and what the killing of Hassan Nasrallah means

The ringing words of Churchill’s ‘We will fight them on the beaches’ speech have powerful overtones for what Israel is trying to do today in its operations in Gaza and Lebanon

There’s a distinct sense of déjà vu. ‘Strident’, they call her, and ‘shrill’. ‘She’ll cross the road to pick a fight,’ they say.

‘It’s the economy, stupid’ – the Clinton campaign was right about what wins votes. It’s still true today

In a three-volume personal history, the French leader crafted a vision that united his own life with the destiny of his nation.

Max Boot’s contention that Reagan was a lightweight pragmatist who played little part in reviving America or winning the Cold War is absurdly revisionist

In a whimsical piece written by Churchill in 1947, Lord Randolph’s ethereal figure appears in the studio at Chartwell – to muse on the possibility of a political career for his son

Much of the international condemnation of Donald Trump’s “Riviera” plan for Gaza rests on the assumption that the Palestinians retain sovereignty over the territory, despite all the events that have taken place since their incursion into Israel on October 7, 2023, and that they also continue to have the right to choose their own government.

‘Amnesty International and Harvard,’ says Alan Dershowitz of the 7 October 2023 massacre, ‘blamed it on Israel even before the first shot was fired in Gaza.’…

More UK citizens were killed during Hamas’ massacre than in any global terror attack since 9/11

Tim Bouverie’s remarkable study, Allies at War, finds extremely timely lessons in the story of the Second World War’s diplomatic relations

How Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy signal the third phase of US decline on the world stage.

Lord North was ill-suited to being a wartime prime minister but it took parliament seven years to replace him by which time America was lost. On the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War, Lord Roberts of Belgravia explains why