1621: Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London for one night. 1659: The Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague. 1669: The last entry in Samuel Pepys’s diary.

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COMMENT: The government has earmarked £1bn to pioneer new military tech powered by AI – which, says Sean O’Grady, is exactly ...

A HIGH street ‘grot spot’ is set to undergo a £200,000 transformation in the hopes of reviving the area. The street has been tarnished by an abandoned department store and is in ...

Horthy’s independent streak eventually provoked the Nazis to invade Hungary in March 1944; thereafter the pace of persecution ...

Emily Hobhouse revealed the truth about Britain’s brutal treatment of Boer civilians during the South African War. She was ...

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Chants like "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" were never Parliamentary resolutions; they were never policy manifestos. They ...

Lord Wavell might not have been a success in the political office of viceroy but he was a great military man and what may ...

CORNISH humanitarian and pacifist Emily Hobhouse was celebrated in April with the unveiling of a bust marking her 165th ...