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Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series ...

T errence Malick ​ is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival ...

Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier ...

My goal was just to stay safe in Sudan. But I realised I wouldn’t have a chance to study and started thinking of Europe.’ His ...

Odesa is mostly Russian-speaking and sometimes thought to be more pro-Russian than other parts of Ukraine, but there ...

The pyramids are so central to the modern view of Egypt, and to Egyptian tourism, that it is hard not to speak ...

John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

You did not need to have met Albert Barnes for him to take against you. In late 1927 Ford Madox Ford, then in New ...

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

Piet Mondrian liked to claim that his life had been a straight line. ‘I started off as a naturalist,’ he told a journalist who visited his studio in Paris in 1922. ‘I soon felt a need for a more ...