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Opera della Lunas debut production of "HMS Pinafore" at the Theatre Royal, Bath, offers a delightful evening filled with humour, lively…

Opera della Lunas debut production of "HMS Pinafore" at the Theatre Royal, Bath, offers a delightful evening filled with humour, lively…

In a brilliant reconsideration of Churchill, Plumb noted that it was above all his “sense of history” that “enriched his strategic thinking.”

Rishi Sunaks appointment of David Cameron to the Lords and the foreign secretary role raised concerns about how he could be held to account by elected politicians. But a committee has found a potential solution - based on an almost forgotten tradition.

At Forbury Park TC harness racing meeting at Oamaru tomorrow there’ll be a new name in the racebook. Twenty year old local Brooke Fodie will be having her first race day drive when she takes the reins of Justin Fun (Changeover) for local trainer Kerry Kelly in Race Two. “I’m pumped. A wee bit nervous

"Henry and Sarah Becker of 50 Van Ness Ave. on the Westside of Santa Cruz liked to brag about their American-born niece, Mildred Southmayd, who around 1920 married well-to-do Englishman Mr. Fowler," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "He had been living in China when the first World War started and headed home to defend Britain."

Winston Churchill plotted from the trenches on the Western Front to oust Herbert Asquith, the First World War prime minister, from power, unpublished letters show.

Lieutenant Victor Hughes led a rearguard action to prevent the future war leader Churchill from being killed during the Malakand Rising of 1897 in India. His medals have now been sold for £10,000.

The Conservative Governments push to expand oil and gas extraction from the North Sea is a retrograde step - exactly the opposite of what we…

The United States Naval Institute reports that China has for the first time appointed an admiral, Dong Jun, as its defense minister.