Europe

The Ideas of 1914

The comparatively static nature of the front line in the west for much of the war meant that, after the...

15/09/2016

From about 1550 the climate again grew colder with the intensification of what is known as “The Little Ice Age”...

17/02/2014

Seventy years ago, interned by the Germans in Buchenwald concentration camp, the Dutch professor Peter Geyl tried out on the...

13/01/2014

Author: Sean McMeekin Publisher: Icon Books Reviewed by: Nigel Jones Price (RRP): £25 There are two conflicting schools of thought...

06/01/2014

The Gypsies, or Roma, are unique: they are the only nomadic people in recorded history who have not been either...

21/09/2013

Three main groups – Magyars, Saracens and Vikings – launched raids on Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries, as...

15/08/2013

Yet within the single lifetime of some of its oldest inhabitants today, Europe has undergone an astonishing transformation, a transformation...

02/01/2013