They married into Hawaiian royalty, survived on a diet of sea elephants and were driven to dance with goats. Siân Rees relates the extraordinary stories of men who found themselves shipwrecked and stranded a long, long way from home
As we approach the anniversary of the Armistice that ended hostilities in the First World War, Fiona Reid looks at how the French commemorate the conflict
On the 65th anniversary of Operation Market Garden Rob Attar looks back at this daring attempt to bring the Second World War to an early end in the Netherlands
Continuing our History & Policy series, David Feldman considers how past immigration has been controlled and received, and how it has impacted upon Britain’s welfare system
Rob Attar spoke to Frank van den Bergh the curator of the National Liberation Musuem in the Netherlands about Operation Market Garden, 65 years after the famous airborne assault. Listen to the full interview here.
Chris Bowlby talks to two medieval historians and a professor of finance about a 13th-century financial crisis that bore striking similarities to today’s credit crunch
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