The two critical general elections which shaped the second half of the 20th century were those of 1945 and 1979.

VJ Day, also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, or VP Day, falls this year on Friday, August 15. The allied victory will be ...

After losing in 1945 Winston Churchill continued to scrutinize world affairs and speak out against Soviet expansionism.

This unravelling was accelerated by domestic and colonial unrest. The Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946—spanning ...

The 56-member Commonwealth might even succeed in devising a peace formula for a West Asia whose warring entities -- Palestine ...

Keir Starmer's attempt to select compliant MPs has backfired, producing a rebellious and ill-informed parliamentary party ...

The work of US historian Bruce Cumings offers a full and fair understanding of what went before June 25 1950, and what came later. While US combat forces had exited the South in 1949, financial ...

The Royal British Legion Scarborough branch will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day with a shared moment of celebration in ...

"Not many people know that this aircraft-carrying cruiser was simply stolen. During the division of the Black Sea Fleet, the Russians left the Ukrainian crew ashore, urgently sailed the ship north, ...

The race to 7,000 Test runs has seen three legends of Test cricket reach the milestone in 138 innings. But which Australian ...

The group bombed the British Embassy in Rome in October 1946 and, two years later, after the creation of the Zionist state, ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...