NICK WRIGHT examines the British ruling class's complex relationship with fascism before, during and after the second world ...

How to convey to her that I had neither the temerity nor the tenacity to write about a world that could be ... without Qualities is set in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the plot is as sprawling ...

In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War ... helped destroy the ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

The world's richest oil baron had more humble beginnings before turning his father's textile factory into an oil, energy and telecom empire now worth more than $95 billion. Mukesh Ambani is the ...

is a multigenerational saga in which one family’s story becomes a metonymy for the fate of the often snowy Austro-Hungarian empire. In 1859, the humbly born Lieutenant Trotta is made a baron ...

The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures onstage Monday. Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, and where of history into one convenient world map. Use the timeline ...

In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible.

Lindsey Vonn finished in sixth place Saturday in her first World Cup downhill race since 2019 as she continues her return to racing at age 40. Vonn, skiing on a familiar mountain in St. Anton ...

Tamás Léderer still can't shake the sense that the world hasn't learned from the horrors of the 20th century. Born in Budapest in 1938, Léderer, unlike most of Hungary's Jewish population ...