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Opening the Iron Curtain – the East Germany’s day of dissent

Operation Unthinkable – Churchill’s plan that would have started World War 3

Louis of England – history’s forgotten King of England

Princess Mary Tudor’s flight to freedom

Canterbury’s cancelled Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots

The Prince of Poyais – settling in the country that never was

A wonderful paradise on the Isthmus of Panama

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third term and the voice from the sewer

Achtung! Achtung! Nazi Germany’s dystopian experiments with TV and radio

Hitler’s plan for monster railways across Europe

A dream that burst into flames – the British Hindenburg disaster

Garibaldi’s plan to divert the River Tiber and change Rome forever

Latest articles

The Plum Pudding Revolution

What were the inalienable heirlooms of the Habsburgs?

The most spectacular incident of biological warfare?

Give peace a chance? Congress’s lone World War pacifist

The Englishman who started the Spanish Civil War

Commuting hell on the underground steam railway

How did Britain thank her greatest military commanders?

Whipping the cat and lining your eyes with ham – idioms lost in translation

Warwolf – King Edward’s secret weapon to hammer the Scots

Framing the question – history’s lessons for winning and losing referenda

The coronation that never was

Adolf Hitler Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-13774 / Unknown Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA [CC-BY-SA-3.0-de (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

Fuck off, mein Führer!

The Cenotaph on Whitehall in London is designated as the United Kingdom’s primary war memorial. It commemorates the end of World War One.

How shall we remember them?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Carl Pietzner [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The United States of Greater Austria

A thoroughly middle-class emperor

A slice of Turkey

Achtung, achtung!

Charles de Gaulle’s embarrassing tête-a-tête

Ticket to Vokzal

A stimulating proposition

Albert Göring – the good brother

The Trafalgar Square Tank Bank

Death from the skies

This is not a test

Latest shorts

Righteousness and the Lionheart

Which European country tops the sovereign default league table?

Unleashing the suffocating cloud

Malmesbury – the first capital of England?

I have sinned

Columns and the Dome of the National Gallery, London, England

World’s most visited museums – part two

Clear Glass Museum during Golden Hour

World’s most visited museums – part one

Why does Hawaii’s flag include the Union Flag?

Green Forest

The United States of the Americas

An Old Castle Under Cloudy Sky

Castle Country

White Pig

Protecting the best of British

Governing in style

President Lincoln and the White House séances

The conquerors’ long legacies

Are you U or are you non-U?

Daneland

The King of May

Ahead of their time

Leading by example

All men are created equal

St David's Cathedral during Daytime

Half a trip to Rome, a third the trip to Jerusalem

Dunrobin Castle in Summer

The Duke of Sutherland’s Railway

Calendar houses

Branches of Autumn Trees over the Cemetery

America’s only ‘official’ wars