Voters need to remember that it is their grandchildren’s future they are deciding on 23rd June.

Once in Italy, Hannibal decimated the Roman armies, who were terrified of his war elephants – the Panzer tanks of the ancient world.

What will be taught in Newcastle may not bear much resemblance to what is taught in London, Scotland or Wales.

At the heart of the European Union lie the culture and common values of each of the the participating nations, including the UK. It is an integration forged out of the fires of two world wars, and it was the vital intention of the founding fathers of the Union that such conflicts should never happen […]

Bubonic plague killed some 50% of the world’s known population.

The heroes of early spy fiction were patriots, brave with the stiff upper lip of the public schoolboy, and above all gentleman amateurs.

Kristallnacht marks the date when the Nazi Party openly ruled outside any legal framework, demonstrating their ability to strip anyone of their citizenship.

It is the first work in English fiction which describes the rare mental condition called “split-personality” or “dissociate identity disorder”.

Agincourt was one of numerous battles fought in the Hundred Years War (1337 – 1452), between the English royal house of Plantagenet and the french.

The term baccalaureate is a misnomer, for unlike its European equivalent, it does not in itself qualify a student for university entrance.