Emily Hobhouse revealed the truth about Britain’s brutal treatment of Boer civilians during the South African War. She was ...

The Second World War was won on many battlefields — including the rooms of this grand country house, says David Ellis ...

Outcome: Churchill, the new Prime Minister ... and he used his position as a journalist to fight for peace in the Boer War. He also played a vital role in World War One. After seeing action ...

Walter Waring, a distinguished officer and veteran of the Boer War and ... Following the Great War, Major Waring served as Parliamentary private secretary to Winston Churchill.

1621: Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London for one night. 1659: The Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague. 1669: The last entry in Samuel Pepys’s diary.

“War,” Stalin said, “was war” and involved some risk. Churchill, adopting a tone that had certainly been used to him before, said to Stalin that risk was one thing, folly quite anothe ...

In this passage from his history, The Second World War, Churchill laid out his powerful argument against retreat and appeasement as the moral response to totalitarian aggression. What, then ...

THUGS who climb on Winston Churchill's statue will face up to three months in jail under new laws. Despite not being officially classified as a war memorial, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will ...

Home Of The Churchill Family' Blenheim Palace is one of the most remarkable historic houses in Britain. Gifted to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marloborough, after his victory at the Battle of Blenheim ...