The perennially controversial question of “Who Started World War I,” is revisited by Prof. Mombauer (Open University, U.K.), in this thoroughly revised edition of her The Origins of the First World ...
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum is to delve into the realities of the Boer War from the perspective of a Scottish regiment.
Restoration work on the South African War Memorial should spark a discussion about commemorating an imperial war, say some ...
Returning to the Boer War memorial, the conflict in South Africa, which ran from 1899 to 1902, has long slipped from living ...
A Bermondsey great-grandmother has been sharing letters with a German pen pal since World War II. Sylvia Perkins, 88, ...
Owen Wilson has starred in seven of Wes Anderson's films and counting. The odd pair have a creative bond that goes right back ...
Jan. 2, 1878: The first meeting of the Nova Scotia Historical Society was held in Halifax. Later, full membership would ...
ON 9 JANUARY 1915, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—seen here at a reception in Karachi, the following year—returned to India after ...
Donald J. Trump, the 45th and soon to be 47th president of the United States, makes a strong case in that his political ...
Grant and and Richard Nixon. In 1860, Grant was selling firewood in Illinois. Eight years later, after helping win the Civil ...
J.M. Coetzee, a Nobel Prize winner and literary icon, masterfully explores themes of power, morality, and human resilience in ...
He served in Benin, at the Second Boer War and the South Pacific before retiring in 1909 - but was recalled into service shortly before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Unwin spent time on ...