History

Trump’s Iran war has been launched with no evidence, no intelligence and no plan

The path of human civilisation has been set by our ability to create and use metals. It has also made us more destructive – and given us the ability to annihilate ourselves

Author David Marsh spoke to 160 key players - and they painted a picture of a continent losing its way

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Every child who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life

A booming land of opportunity, of young entrepreneurs and start-ups, is locked in a 50-50 culture war that could see it replace Hungary as the EU’s biggest internal nightmare

How a genuinely old dialect word became part of a made-up East Anglian pub game

How the creator of Peanuts created humour from loneliness and sadness

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In the Kenyan mountains, a collection of colonial-era party houses is slowly rotting away. What should a nation do with the remains of its imperial past?

The art of slipping away from a party without saying goodbye is known across the Channel as ‘leaving in the English style’

Engineers warned but managers pushed on and a preventable disaster unfolded live on the world’s TV screens

How a Greek word for sanctuary became one of the most contested terms in modern English

How the widow of Martin Luther King Jr transformed mourning into a lifelong movement

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A seven-million-year-old fossil continues to complicate the story of when, and how, humans first walked on two legs

Belgian idealist Paul Otlet imagined a global information network that would unite humanity. How right – and wrong – he was

Malik Al Nasir’s search for his roots began with a racist jam mascot - and ended with him tracing his heritage to both sides of a brutal trade

Gustav Trippe’s family say his letters show his doubts about the regime - and that he was murdered for writing them

The generations of leftist schoolteachers using subversive techniques like source criticism and analytical thinking have been brainwashing British youngsters to hate their country. As part of Reform’s overhaul of the national curriculum, the new history syllabus will be based on the following essay by Lee Anderson

I found Greek mythology a bit stuffy and dull when I studied it at school, but now I get why so many people got hooked over the centuries

Despite its strong association with US sport and policing, the term ‘rookie’ has a complicated history

Dismissed by friends and launched in an era when women lacked the vote, Ocampo’s Sur magazine became a defining force in 20th-century literature and politics

A joint exhibition at Tate Britain reveals the story of two geniuses who did some of their best work in the worst weather

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One museum in Washington DC makes clear that when it comes to its own military history, the US has a serious short-term memory problem

In 1961, before the first human reached space, a chimpanzee was strapped into a rocket and sent into the unknown

Gerry Gable, the dedicated, controversial founder of Searchlight magazine, had infiltrators and spies on his books in an intelligence war against racism

A Croatian rock singer is using Nazi salutes to gee up his crowd. Even worse, the prime minister is apparently a fan

In 1968, a US bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed in Greenland. That time the bombs didn’t detonate and there was no catastrophe. But the nation now faces a new US threat and the outcome could be much worse

She was always adamant that she had done nothing heroic; that helping other people should be considered normal, not exceptional

The great crime writer, who died 50 years ago, may have looked in later life like Miss Marple – but in her youth she was an intrepid world traveller with a passion for surfing