German armed forces signed an unconditional surrender, bringing the Second World War in Europe to an end. To celebrate the ...

On 22 November 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. At the time of his death, Kennedy had served fewer than three years as president, but within US politics, he was a ...

“Hitler has only got one ball, / Goring has two but very small, / Himmler is rather sim’lar, / But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.” This cheeky wartime ditty mocking the masculinity of Adolf ...

In the early 19th century, a gifted and divisive figure from France became a political giant in Europe – and it wasn’t ...

Rising from the fires of the French Revolution, one young man reached the top of European politics – not through seizing ...

If you killed a man in 14th-century England, there was a good chance you’d get away with it. Not because the law was soft, or justice disorganised — in fact, homicide was a capital offence. But ...

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