Winston Churchill was one of the most consequential public figures of the last century, a man of many interests. Even now, ...

The Heidelberg Heritage Association awarded the latest blue plaque for heritage to the Heidelberg Crown Hotel. The plaque is ...

There are key spots for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and his Nobel prize, for Canadian peacekeeping and for Canada’s push ...

during the campaign by the British to relieve the besieged city Ladysmith during the initial months of the Second Boer War. It was an all-inclusive war between Britain and the allied men from ...

We've fought side-by-side, laughed together and constantly sledged each other.Australia and New Zealand have been the closest ...

Many in the West, of the political right and left, now deny imperialism. For Josef Schumpeter, empires were pre-capitalist atavisms that would not survive the spread of capitalism. But even the ...

“Now we’re all standing at this party, telling you about the party you had and how it happened. My other favourite memory about Kitcheners is that my sister met her husband here, literally drunk at ...

The statue of Rhodes, which stands on the front of Oriel's Grade II-listed High Street building, has been a focal point for ...

The German actor made Hollywood history in 1929 when he won Best Actor over a dog, before becoming a willing cog in Adolf ...

The Napoleonic, Crimean and Boer Wars, the Indian campaigns followed by the First World War and ensuing major 20 th century British armed conflicts (18 different campaign medals were issued in the ...

Back in the final months of the First World War in 1918 and again the following year officers in the Metropolitan Police went ...