When war broke out in 1914, thousands of coal miners swapped shovels for rifles, believing life in the trenches might be ...

The 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe in 1945 is being commemorated by the South Downs Poetry Festival ...

In many ways, the survey has been a long time coming. The museum has collected Johnson’s work, he is old friends with chief ...

A large number of Irish men joined up when they had emigrated from Ireland during World War I. Many died from the counties of ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The revolutionary Scotsman, who created in his Lanarkshire garden 'Little Sparta', would have turned 100 this year ...

Vladimir Mayakovsky was a great poet of the October Revolution. Yet at the start of World War I, the young futurist had ...

WASHINGTON — Economists have some advice for Americans who have been worried about President Donald Trump’s trade war potentially tanking the U.S ... which brought on the Great Depression nearly a ...

"Trump blinks first in trade war" was the headline of the Telegraph and The Daily Mirror had a headline which read ""Great War of China". For days, fellow Republicans and business executives had been ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aiming to reverse water conservation standards for showerheads, dishwashers, and other household appliances, a move he calls the end of ...

Cleophas Malala has written an emotional poem to Butere Girls High School drama team after ... Source: UGC The girls earlier declined to perform their play Echoes of War, instead staging a dramatic ...

John le Carré was one of the great postwar novelists, converting the experience of Cold War espionage into brilliant works of literature. Yet he did so without really questioning the ruling doctrines ...