From the lost worlds of old Shanghai to the very modern concerns of everyday anxiety, here are eight new books to get you ...

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

Scotland can withdraw from this busted Union any time it wishes. We need only a nationalist party with the statesmanship and backbone to ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

On a cold January morning on the Boulevard de Sébastopol in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, four young African men in puffer coats are posted hoods-up at the four corners of the crossroads with the ...

Britain relied heavily on its empire for resources ... war the cabinet made the decision that all wireless stations in German colonies should be destroyed. Top of the list… was Kamina.

South Africa was part of the British Commonwealth and Germany had colonies in GSWA and German East Africa (now Tanzania). The river was flooded, and the heavily laden vessel was no match for the ...

By Stephen Smoot President Donald Trump has moved back into his comfort zone on foreign policy - working on a real estate deal for Greenland that would even outstrip Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana ...

During the First World War, they had hatched what came to be known as the Hindu-German conspiracy. It was a plot to bring down the empire through a revolt in ... s fascist government to run the French ...

Although German colonial rule was relatively short-lived – as the country lost all its colonies after World War I – it was marked by exceptional brutality. Between 1904 and 1908, German forces ...