In November 1940, the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm executed a surprise attack on the Italian naval base at Taranto, reshaping naval warfare... The raid on Taranto would go on to inspire the ...

A sharp study of shifting attitudes to femininity in British culture after 1945, connected by a trend for "blondeness" ...

Idris Elba is now a knight, while Cynthia Erivo is a member of the order of the British Empire for services to music and ...

Newly founded Arab states like Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and others, rejected any Jewish sovereignty in the ancient Jewish homeland and launched war after war. The Arab leadership also created what ...

Born Aina in war-torn West Africa, Sarah Forbes Bonetta survived enslavement and ritual sacrifice to become an unlikely ...

Alwyn Turner charts the new values, entertainments and anxieties that transformed the country in the 1920s and ’30s ...

With the New Cold War heating up, and American citizens under siege at home, it’s no small wonder that a Russian named Berlin can still claim to have ...

When Iron Maiden’s sixth studio album Somewhere In Time was released in 1986, singer Bruce Dickinson had a funny way of ...

Loaded was a publishing phenomenon, selling over 450,000 copies a month and twice winning Magazine of the Year. Co-founder ...

“As America begins its Semiquincentennial celebration, I will be happy to visit one of the great shrines of democracy itself, ...

For over 200 years, American presidents have repeatedly justified intervention as 'protection' - from the Monroe Doctrine of the 1820s, Teddy Roosevelt at the turn of the 20th century, to Richard ...

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Jan. 29 ...