Many of us were surprised when the head of the Army advocated conscription in the face of the Russian danger. Less surprised that the Prime Minister quickly dismissed the idea – it would certainly ...

Before the creation of the NHS, Britain relied on a patchwork of private and charitable providers for health care. The patchwork is back. “We are seeing the return of the mixed economy,” says Barry ...

¶ Passed and sent to George V for signature the most bitterly fought (for eight months) measure of this session: the Labor Government’s Coal Bill, previously passed by the House of Commons (TIME, ...

Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Britain, homosexuality was an illicit act, and would remain that way until 1967 ...

The origins of Blitzkrieg are often seen as purely German innovation, but some of its core elements were actually influenced by British military thinking between the World Wars. In the 1920s and 1930s ...

¶ Jewish fears that Great Britain might someday give up her Palestine mandate and leave the Zionist colonies there to be slaughtered by the Arabs were dispelled, last week, when Prime Minister James ...

If history were about repeats, which it is not, not exactly, but still, today’s America would best be seen in light of what ...