The war in italy

What Italian opera signified to the Habsburg court

THE TURNING POINTS OF 1812

A Spain allied with the Nazis in the Second World War would have ruined the Allied campaign in the Middle East, but doomed the Francoist state to an earlier collapse

LONG MARSTON, YORKSHIRE 2 JULY 1644

FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w