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A Day in History - 13th May 2012 Heading into the final game of the 2011/12 season, the race for the Premier League title was the closest...

A Day in History - 16th April 1945 Colditz Castle is arguably the most infamous of all POW camps. Declared as 'escape-proof' by Field...

The touring England cricket side which played the first ever test series in Australia, 1887/88 (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty...

A Day in History - 19th January 1983 Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie was a member of the Nazi Gestapo who worked in the German-occupied...

The ‘Age of Atlantic Revolution’ describes the period between 1775 and 1825 that created a revolutionary wave promoting ideals of...

In the years 1931-1937, ‘Generalissimo’ Chiang Kai-Shek pursued a stance of appeasement with Japan, summarised through the policy of an...

Homages to Giuseppe Garibaldi can be seen all over the world, from the biscuit to the cocktail, down to the colour of Nottingham Forest’s...

In 1848, a series of revolutions swept across Europe, fuelled by a raging desire for political and social change. Alexander Herzen and...

Introduction In 1862, Otto von Bismarck advocated “The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority...

Labelled as the “Epidemic Century”, the 19th century in Britain has been seen as one of the most decisive shapers of History. This...

The Yan’an Rectification Campaign was an ideological mass movement carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1942 to 1944...

Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, left a deep political and intellectual legacy, so much so that he...

To understand how far dissent can explain the collapse of the Soviet Union, this essay will assess the role of dissent within the...

A Day in History - 27th August 1896 The shortest war in history began and ended within the timeframe of 38 minutes. In the fallout of the...