Many of us were surprised when the head of the Army advocated conscription in the face of the Russian danger. Less surprised that the Prime Minister quickly dismissed the idea – it would certainly ...

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Before the creation of the NHS, Britain relied on a patchwork of private and charitable providers for health care. The patchwork is back. “We are seeing the return of the mixed economy,” says Barry ...

Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Britain, homosexuality was an illicit act, and would remain that way until 1967 ...

Britain's Prince Charles warned against intolerance towards refugees fleeing religious persecution on Thursday, saying the rising tide of populism was reminiscent of the "dark days" of the 1930s. "The ...

Historians of the eugenics movement have long been ambivalent in their examination of the links between British hereditary researchers and Nazi Germany. While there is now a clear consensus that ...

¶ Jewish fears that Great Britain might someday give up her Palestine mandate and leave the Zionist colonies there to be slaughtered by the Arabs were dispelled, last week, when Prime Minister James ...

Britain’s general election campaign has always ended in a sprint that usually starts about three weeks before the voting takes place. This year it is more like a marathon, one that will end on May 7 ...

Initially, the main subject of “The Dig,” adapted from John Preston’s 2007 novel of the same name, which was based on real events, is dirt, and what may lie beneath it. But for most of its duration, ...

Palestine 36 is a new movie about Arab resistance to colonialism in British-governed Palestine in the late 1930s. It is a ...

The BBC has helped to fund a brutally anti-British film about Palestine, now in cinemas in Britain and soon to be released in the US. Viewers in Britain will be shocked to see British soldiers ...