History

The Vajont dam was hailed as an engineering miracle. Then, 60 years ago, it was the cause of one of Italy’s deadliest disasters

In Crécy, chroniclers understand that history is not just drama: it’s humdrum everyday life

Spain can still learn lessons from this decisive final battle of its civil war

Actor Millie Bobby Brown used a co-writer on a novel telling a family story. What’s so wrong with that?

Back then, we turned away boats and set up camps - so what has changed?

There is far more than a cackling cavalier to the Dutch Golden Age painter, the most venerated artist of his time

Beloved of celebrities, the SS Normandie was the fastest, most beautiful ocean-going liner of them all – yet it was doomed from the start

Political shaming is all too rare nowadays. But one day the famous left wing theorist EP Thompson just went too far

Public opinion is divided over an antisemitic leaflet, which Aiwanger denies authorship of, that emerged from the Bavaria premier’s teenage years

A new photography book revels in the past of F1’s most famous team. But what would their founder make of their uncertain future?

The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne crushed hopes of a homeland for Turkey’s Armenian and Kurdish minorities. Today, hostilities remain

The 1943 Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle in history and left a landscape of apocalyptic destruction. It still holds lessons for the war in Ukraine

Researchers have just added another piece to the jigsaw that is a body from the Copper Age

In Gagauzia, a former Soviet splinter caught between Ukraine and the EU, the pull of old bonds and certainties remains strong

A stopgap solution without a peace treaty will only create conditions for future conflict

What I am discovering, in re-reading his novels, is the immense capacity not only of his mind, but of his humanity

The country’s past turmoil can be traced back to the colonial rule that sought to divide and rule citizens of Cyprus

Next year, the quaint town in Saxony-Anhalt will celebrate 30 years of world heritage status. Once you visit, it’s easy to see why

The rise of Sinn Féin in both the north and south brings a border poll closer. But coming together would be painful – and perhaps bloody

The city is celebrating its past and future on Saint Christopher’s day

The author lives on in a Barcelona conference which asks what he would make of the upcoming Spanish election and Franco’s legacy

When the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands, they built a network of forced labour camps. What happened there is still a matter of controversy – and pain

Socrates was poisoned with Hemlock. But did Plato fictionalise the account of his death?

When the head of France’s collaborating Vichy government appeared in court, he remained a mystery for many who were there

One night in 1989, the greatest gymnast in the world tried to escape from communist Romania

Many who work for the EU miss the rigour, clarity and discipline that British Eurocrats brought to the party

The Soviet spy agency took its Cold War tactics from a Chinese military strategist who died in 500 BC. The same ideas are now being used against Ukraine

One of Britain’s leading historians explains how the roots of the decision taken seven years ago were laid decades before that

Europe is once more witness to invasion, destruction and war. Can, or even should, we ever put such horrors behind us?

When the Soviet cosmonaut made her pioneering flight 60 years ago, she was supposed to usher in an era of Soviet “Gagarins in skirts”. What happened?

History never seems to pass in Vienna and this will always be the case

Jutland, at the edge of the EU, has found itself in the centre of the bloc's response to Vladimir Putin's aggression