They don’t make them like Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher anymore. More’s the pity. Having marched on the French capital overthrowing … More

The historian Andrew Roberts once muttered over a buttery scallop and crisp glass of white Burgundy, that it was “a … More

Given their propensity to hug strangers, dress in shabby clothes and go white at the offer of a bayonet and … More

Alaska has a lot of oil. It also has a lot of seals, space and domestic abuse. It doesn’t have … More

The Russian nihilist movement gained momentum as a body of political change after the assassination of Alexander II, or Alexander … More

Did you see the news delivered by Huw We’re out you know, no more EU! Sunderland spoke, now you better … More

Christian von Ehrenfels took a taste to the particularly unsavoury notion of Yellow Peril. Von Ehrenfels was an Austrian philosopher … More

That Kaiser Wilhelm II was mad as a box of frogs – and not in a good way – was … More

Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor. That he was the last German Emperor was entirely of his own making. … More

World War I was a bloody war. A bloody war, played out in muddy trenches, fought by men whose pride … More