Germany didn’t become a country naturally—it was built through conflict, after centuries of fragmented states trapped inside the Holy Roman Empire. When Napoleon dismantled the old system, German ...

However, prior to the rise of the United States as a great power, saviour of Europe and later as a superpower, the European ...

In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had ...

The crusades to the Holy Land were a consuming obsession of Latin Christianity for four centuries and remain among the most famous episodes of the Middle Ages. Yet, in the perspective of history, they ...

As an initiative redistributes a bumper surplus of spuds, here's a look at the Germans' great love affair with the potato.

Charles Edward died of cancer in his flat in Coburg in 1954 at the age of 69. He was described as a "penniless criminal" in one report and is buried at the Waldfriedhof Cemetery near one of his former ...

Princess Caroline turns 69 today, and, as the former First Lady of Monaco, she is the only member of her generation to have ...

Karl Marx has insisted that reason appears through social life, not as a fixed abstract. He has argued that ideas reflect ...

Daniel Siemens is Professor of European History at Newcastle University and the author of Stormtroopers: A New History of ...

The Philippines has long held a reputation as a compassionate and welcoming archipelago. Over the last century, we have ...

Observing the tussle for Greenland, it is hard not to recall Karl Marx’s aphorism that history repeats itself “the first time ...

Barely a day goes by in Brussels without someone looking enviously at US or Chinese technology. From artificial intelligence to semiconductors to electric cars, the continent seems convinced it needs ...