History

During WWII, top-secret Operation Danegeld brought huge amounts of precision equipment from surrounded Switzerland to help Britain’s war effort

In 1974, Portugal had the lowest wages and highest illiteracy in western Europe. Then came the Carnation Revolution

Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears

Germany should accept the gift of 20,000 elephants from Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, with both remorse and open arms

This production at the National Theatre gives Nye Bevan the Churchill treatment

Despite some attempts at prohibition, the tradition goes on in Spain. Like that of the bulls, its own demise will be a long, drawn-out affair

The youth movement of the 1950s was rooted in Britain’s working class, but its influence and notoriety spread across the continent

When Yugoslavia’s dictator split with Stalin in 1948, his potential rivals – politicians, intellectuals, businessmen – found themselves exiled

Verona’s infamous star-crossed lover can’t help today’s hopeful romantics

In a subterranean game of cat and mouse beneath the streets of the French capital, cataflics hunt cataphiles in the city’s prohibited labyrinths

This is the country’s first museum dedicated to telling the whole story of the darkest period in European history. Will it get it right?

Exploring the surprising link between a small town in the shadow of Mount Etna and the most celebrated siblings in English literature

Philosophers are more diverse than history has led us to believe

The German Jewish writer defied the Nazis by producing a magazine from his hiding place in Holland. They are testament to his life and times

In an exclusive extract from his diaries of 1999 and 2000, former Labour minister Denis MacShane reveals the growing xenophobia in the Tory Party under William Hague’s leadership – and how it sowed the seeds of Brexit

A century old, Rhapsody in Blue blends rhythms from the Black jazz age and from the Europe that George Gershwin left behind

Once the toast of New York society, the mystery of why she did what she did remains

The story of the fateful real-life race that inspired Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie

The mythology around the Spanish civil war lives on in Munich

The Beatles gave young Americans gold standard permission to be different from their parents

A thawing ice rink, frosty relations between some competitors and a distinct lack of fans couldn’t stop the success of Chamonix 1924

Power is not given – it must be taken

We investigated 274 suspects - and secured only one conviction

The creator of the first totalitarian state died on January 24, 1924. His body was viewed by the faithful in temperatures of -35C

The continent became a safe haven in the postwar years for American musicians escaping racism and drugs. Decades on, they are still coming

Forty years ago one of the Netherlands’ wealthiest men was snatched by the future godfathers of the Dutch underworld

His zeal doused by public apathy and establishment ambivalence, Albert became gradually overwhelmed by disillusionment

The row with Greece shows Sunak can’t even do basic diplomacy. So what’s the point of him being PM?

The argument that only the British Museum can protect the marbles isn’t accepted in Greece

For Germans, Kissinger's is a story of forgiveness

Tetchy, thin-skinned, used to getting your own way? Then politics isn’t for you, Mr Sunak

Africa will always be part of my identity – but not all of it