Scotland's History Land and Votes The Battle of Waterloo The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to download the Adobe ...

As so-called patriots argue over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, Fleet Street Fox points out the one thing everyone's ...

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

Beef Wellington's history goes back longer than you might think. The luxurious British steak meal has a complicated and ...

The rise of the British Empire hinged on the outcome of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon’s French army. Within a decade Britain was the dominant superpower and the Australian ...

On the day Donald Trump is sworn in as US president for the second time we look back at his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born and brought up on the Hebridean island of Lewis but emigrated to New ...

In 1815, they sent Napoleon Bonaparte to Saint Helena after his defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, rightly figuring he’d be unlikely to ever escape and threaten Europe again. Until the ...

HEDGE funds have long gotten bad press. Criticised for short selling, corporate agitation or destructive greed, their ...

The period of the Highland Clearances on the mainland had largely missed Lewis but after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 some of the better lands for sheep-grazing on the island were cleared of ...

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The government in an act of Euro diplomacy is renaming its new nuclear submarine HMS Agincourt as HMS Achilles. In 1415 an ...