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In the light of Parliament’s decision to approve military action in Syria, Rory Cox looks back to the classical and medieval world to ask: ‘What makes a just war?’

The true story behind the much-mythologised ship and its vanished crew.

Juliet Gardiner discusses a new exhibition on the experiences of children in the Second World War, which opens at the Imperial War Museum on March 18th.

The history of deafness is as old as humanity.

The powerful influence exercised by Thomas, Lord Wharton, before the Reform Act of 1832.

A new work for chorus and orchestra based on Carol Ann Duffy’s poem The Christmas Truce receives its premiere this weekend.

A marvel of the Victorian era, the Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire on November 30th, 1936.

How far did Napoleon’s Corsican childhood and his father’s role in the island’s brief period of autonomy influence his later life?

Advocates of civil liberties often privilege issues of morality over the need for a government to keep its people safe. Yet the early modern pre-occupation with security remains embedded in western states.

There should be no contradiction in constructing a history curriculum that incorporates both Britain’s ‘national memory’ and its many diversities, argues Suzannah Lipscomb.