And still, Leen keeps searching, following the advice of famous Smoky Mountain writer Horace Kephart—himself a seeker—who, ...

This video explores how Britain, Poland, and the wider world prepared—openly and secretly—for war in August 1939, from gas masks, blackouts, and evacuations to the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, a young ...

Less than 18 hours after Great Britain and France declared war on Germany, plunging nearly 300,000,000 persons of nations around the globe into war, Hitler's forces apparently had struck the first ...

LONDON, Sept. 3, 1939 (INS) - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed to the British empire and the world at large today that Great Britain and Germany are at war, a conflict that may lead to a ...

Swedenborg House announces Elective Affinities, a landmark exhibition marking 100 years at its historic Bloomsbury premises.

Of all the volumes of the Survey of International Affairs covering the period of the war this is of greatest current interest. Tracing the rise and fall of the Grand Alliance from Pearl Harbor to the ...

Digital Spy has turned 25, and after celebrating the best British TV dramas, we're turning our attention to the best British movies during Digital Spy's existence. It was a tough challenge and to make ...

Humanity achieved flight a mere decade before the outset of World War I in 1914, and pioneers did not take long to press the revolutionary new science into service. The first fighter pilots fought in ...

Historian Shambrook (French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936) offers an exhaustive study of official diplomatic documents pertaining to Britain’s control of Palestine. Confident that the Ottoman Turks ...

She ruled for seven decades, unshakably committed to the rituals of her role amid epic social and economic change and family scandal. By Alan Cowell To hear more audio stories from publications like ...