Political

Hannes Kleineke examines the career of the first Yorkist king.

In 1947, as Zionist insurgents wreaked havoc, British special forces in Palestine adopted counterinsurgency tactics that attracted worldwide condemnation. David Cesarani discusses a scandal whose ramifications persist to this day.

Richard Cavendish remembers Israel's own Iron Lady, who became Prime Minister on March 17th 1969

As a major conference on the nature of liberty opens, David Marquand questions the free and democratic legacy that British history has bequeathed to the country and citizens of today.

Michael Dunne reflects on past US presidential Inaugurals, and the words which still resonate.

Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979.

A power struggle in postwar Germany erupted on January 5th, 1919.