Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

The attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher marks the latest escalation in a string of violence in Sudan’s 20-month civil war - a brutal power tussle between the paramilitary ...

Our world has been shaped by two all-consuming conflicts - and by a global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. Explore the in-depth sections below.

The book’s title is far too modest: it understates the vast scope of the exercise. The English Civil Wars is more than a history of a war, or even of a cluster of wars. Worden’s avowed subject is ‘the ...