History

They endured the civil war, persecution and Franco, but the Basques are still singing

Has King Charles given humanity a gift towards healing the intergenerational trauma caused by slavery?

In Germany today, a lot of stereotypes between the East and the West remain. This is far from healthy

A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge

The story of Odysseus’s Italian origins are surprisingly popular and Sicilian tourism companies know how to capitalise on this

Berlin is lively and welcoming. But, reminders of past horrors are ever-present across the city

Looking at the blurred and bloody borders of Habsburg history through the writings of Joseph Roth

The genius of a mysterious and overlooked painter is revealed at a new exhibition in The Hague

Forty-three years after the Bologna station bombing killed 85 people, including a young couple from Bristol, a far-right militant was finally jailed for his part in it

Two-thirds of Argentinians are descended from the old country.. and the two nations share some of the same problems

Over 200 years on, Britain may be about to reverse Lord Elgin’s act of chicanery and vandalism

The Greco-Turkish war took place 100 years ago – but historical accounts of those events obscure a disturbing truth, one that must be confronted

A change in the climate between the years 1000 and 1200 led to profound changes across the continent – and the world

The humble life of St Francis of Assisi continues to inspire valuable paintings, showcased in an upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery

Remembering the brave resistance of Germany’s White Rose movement and their fight for free expression

If we do not learn the lessons of the Iraq war, we are doomed to further conflict and chaos

Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb war criminal, is dying. For one of the families he ripped apart, his fate means nothing

The story of the Senegal-born boxer the IRA couldn’t knock out – and his fatal drift into dissipation

A notorious mafia killer is now behind bars – but why did it take so long to catch him?

The UK was at the forefront of developing nuclear energy. How then did it fall so far behind France? And is it ripe for a comeback?

Russia’s biggest airline is marking its centenary. But is there much to celebrate?

Each of these artefacts belonged to a member of German society, until that very same society turned against them

How France’s invasion of the Ruhr and its execution of a saboteur 100 years ago fuelled Hitler’s rise

Their heyday was between the 1880s and 1940s. But green concerns about short-haul flights are bringing sleeper trains back in vogue

The Kremlin is using history to justify its war in Ukraine. But Putin’s version could disappear with the flick of a switch

Hidden for nearly 200 years, the embalmed organ that symbolises the bond – and tensions – between Portugal and Brazil has now gone public

An eagerness to put ourselves on the ‘right side’ is reassuring. But dragging the dead before a moral tribunal is pointless

Nobody stuck a poster of Niels Bohr, wild-haired and with his tongue out, on their wall, but the Dane did as much for expanding the range of scientific knowledge in the modern age as Albert Einstein

The discovery of boy king Tutankhamun’s tomb 100 years ago sparked an international wave of Tutmania. Yet the find’s lasting legacy is its reminder of our common humanity

After two world wars, a genocide and two dictatorships, there is no shortage of reasons for commemoration in Germany. And yet there is

The lives of the early 20th-century gentry who fled to safety – but also to poverty – in Paris

The New World’s witch trials are infamous. But the most brutal outbreaks of Satanic panic took place in what is now southern Germany