Switzengland

For many of the most successful imperialist countries, empire was just not worth the trouble...

Parisian cafes could become cauldrons of conversation and thought...

Inherent in the politics of humiliation is status competition...

Approximately 250,000 priceless artefacts somehow escaped destruction by fire, water, moths and termite...

The ambiguity reflects the complex relationship between the monarchy and Britain’s former empire...

In 1972, the US Navy installed a nuclear submarine base in La Maddalena...

Mikhail Gorbachev’s role in the collapse of the Soviet Union and in ending the Cold War on largely peaceful terms marks him as undoubtedly one of the most influential figures of the late twentieth century...

Dissatisfied with Édouard Daladier’s coalition of the socialist-republican French left, tens of thousands right-wing activists gathered at the Place de la Concorde...

Far from being a sea of calm and piety, the churchyard could be as cacophonous as anywhere else in the City...

In this version of history, Poland and Lithuania had been briefly conquered and colonised by the Sarmatians...

Unable to deter the Soviets, France and Britain finally raised a military relief force, too small and too late to impact the outcome...

In 1991, Ukraine became an independent country and the world’s third largest nuclear power...

Indians have remade London in various ways over the last five hundred years...