It was Pierre Trudeau who famously summed up Canada’s ‘American dilemma’ when speaking to an audience at the National Press ...

In the febrile political climate of early modern Europe, letters – and the information they contained – were dangerous.

Hitler’s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht by Douglas Carl Peifer surfaces the stories of those who sought to sit ...

As Nasser moved to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was forced to choose between faith and ...

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

When Samuel Pepys’ diary was first published 200 years ago it was an instant hit, but rumours soon spread about what had been cut and why.

In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain, Sam Wetherell discovers a city of slavery, ships, soccer, and socialism, whose ...

Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International History at LSE. His latest book is The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 ...

For one terrifying moment it seemed that history was repeating itself. In early 1881 the Russian tsar Alexander II had been assassinated. And now, a decade later on 11 May 1891, an assassin brought a ...

Le circonflexe est mort, vive le circonflexe. Last week all hell broke loose when a story emerged that the French language was about to lose its circumflex – the ‘ˆ’ symbol that appears above some ...