As Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a status update on the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK, David Musgrove ...

Historian Mark White explores whether John F Kennedy would have defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964 – and how his second term ...

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

Although British soldiers in the Second World War sang about the Führer only having “one ball”, that did not necessarily make ...

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

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

In medieval England, violence was a reality of everyday life — but theft? That was deliberate, unforgivable, and more likely ...

In the cradle of civilisation, illness wasn’t just a medical problem — it was a supernatural one. That’s why Mesopotamians ...

In the wake of the suicide of Adolf Hitler, the Allies and what remained of the Nazi regime had to negotiate a peace. As this documentary recounts, it was a fraught process and yet what was decided ...

At 2.41am on 7 May 1945, at a schoolhouse near Reims in northern France, General Alfred Jodl, the German chief of staff, signed the unconditional surrender of all German land, sea and air forces ...