APeasant Woman digging (summer 1885) is among the least known Van Gogh paintings in UK public collections. An important early work, it is normally on display at the University of ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In Smolensk, residents were obliged to fear both the occupying Nazis and what would happen if Soviet rule returned.

When an establishment media propagandist makes an assertion this asinine, one struggles to find a single explanation for it.

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter after another busy week. Read on. And sign up here. ‘Emilia’s Awards Chances… A week is a long time: Last time I penned this very ...

The SPD wants to invest heavily in the German military, the Bundeswehr, to modernize it "sustainably." The SPD wants to pursue a coordinated European policy towards China, which it categorizes as ...

One of the earliest examples of this interesting phenomenon can be seen in the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, of 1524-25. This was a sequence of uprisings by the disenfranchised and heavily ...

The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola a case for the Rennaissance as a triumph not of individuality, but of ...

London, Hereford and Oxford have all laid claim to Pepys’ ‘pretty witty Nell’ – he also called her ‘a bold merry slut’ -- but she was probably a native Londoner, born close to the scene of her future ...

Two years into an economic recession, German businesses are sounding the alarm and demanding no less than a complete overhaul of economic policy after February's election. Lower energy costs ...

Kemi Badenoch has defended her comments blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis. The Conservative leader faced criticism for her words last week, ...