From September 1940, Germany’s Luftwaffe subjected Britain to an intense bombing campaign lasting more than eight months. Around 43,000 civilians were killed, with many more injured or made homeless.

"Simon Jenkins on architecture is typically a treat," said Laura Freeman in The Times. Over the past 25 years, the newspaper columnist has produced a series of bestselling books – "England's Thousand ...

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British ...

Just six months ago, in confident form and not looking at all like a man who would soon be out of work, David Cameron assured an audience in Hamburg that “I never want us to pull up the drawbridge and ...

AFA copy 39088019764596 gift from Janet Stanley. "Most accounts of Nigeria's colonization were written by British officials, presenting it as a noble civilizing mission to rid Africans of barbaric ...

Last week I published a Salon review of Peter Turchin’s new book, “End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration,” which I have described as the most comprehensive ...