History

East German athletes cheated at three Olympics and won more than 300 medals. But the price they paid was immeasurable

It is a story that might sound familiar today: 90 years ago a football final was played as the shadow of fascism began to creep over Europe

Forty years ago, striking miners were lied to about the EU’s role in closing pits. No wonder so many went on to vote Leave in 2016

The D-day landings didn’t just take soldiers to occupied Europe – they also delivered the trains and rail workers who helped to secure victory

After 30 years of coverups, what really happened when a Chinook helicopter crashed in 1994, killing key personnel involved in Britain’s battle with the IRA?

The conflict in Gaza is raising tensions across the world, but Gibraltar’s historic Muslim and Jewish communities maintain harmony

With an 800-year history, the city’s St John’s Hospital Museum understands the role of art in the healing process

In an edited extract, the author of a new book explores the eerie ruins of an abandoned resort in the island’s ‘forbidden zone’

Plato addressed many of the questions that have been at the centre of discussion for almost 2,500 years

The military coup hastened the end of the Portuguese empire, and triggered the country’s turn towards Europe

Salemi’s status as capital lasted a mere 24 hours, but the pride its residents feel today is immeasurable.

The Italian revolutionised children’s education and established the schools that carry her name all over the world to this day

After years of false starts, the Channel Tunnel opened 30 years ago this week. Yet Brexit shows that it has failed to bring us closer to Europe

During WWII, top-secret Operation Danegeld brought huge amounts of precision equipment from surrounded Switzerland to help Britain’s war effort

In 1974, Portugal had the lowest wages and highest illiteracy in western Europe. Then came the Carnation Revolution

Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears

Germany should accept the gift of 20,000 elephants from Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, with both remorse and open arms

This production at the National Theatre gives Nye Bevan the Churchill treatment

Despite some attempts at prohibition, the tradition goes on in Spain. Like that of the bulls, its own demise will be a long, drawn-out affair

The youth movement of the 1950s was rooted in Britain’s working class, but its influence and notoriety spread across the continent

When Yugoslavia’s dictator split with Stalin in 1948, his potential rivals – politicians, intellectuals, businessmen – found themselves exiled

Verona’s infamous star-crossed lover can’t help today’s hopeful romantics

In a subterranean game of cat and mouse beneath the streets of the French capital, cataflics hunt cataphiles in the city’s prohibited labyrinths

This is the country’s first museum dedicated to telling the whole story of the darkest period in European history. Will it get it right?

Exploring the surprising link between a small town in the shadow of Mount Etna and the most celebrated siblings in English literature

Philosophers are more diverse than history has led us to believe

The German Jewish writer defied the Nazis by producing a magazine from his hiding place in Holland. They are testament to his life and times

In an exclusive extract from his diaries of 1999 and 2000, former Labour minister Denis MacShane reveals the growing xenophobia in the Tory Party under William Hague’s leadership – and how it sowed the seeds of Brexit

A century old, Rhapsody in Blue blends rhythms from the Black jazz age and from the Europe that George Gershwin left behind

Once the toast of New York society, the mystery of why she did what she did remains

The story of the fateful real-life race that inspired Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie

The mythology around the Spanish civil war lives on in Munich