Denmark and Prussia fought because of the Schleswig Holstein question, a messy dispute over who should control the duchies and whether they belonged with Denmark or the German Confederation. Ethnic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Mahmoud Zibawi The Jordanian desert contains a series of Umayyad palaces, the largest of which is Qasr al-Mshatta, located in ...

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