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The story of oil is focused on the US. But our oil-centred world was made through wider global relations.
With Keir Starmer, the 5th British prime minister in ten years now sitting in an ejector seat, the nation is dreaming of a “new Churchill”, but is this the ideal role model for Britain’s current predicament?
A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight – and gave Washington a chance to turn the tide.
The author of a book chronicling the evolution of the global game explores the origins of association football.
A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy for decades.
A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and transported.
New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.
Is the banknote a good reflection of a nation and who belongs?
Because the US government has rarely offered full-throated support for the arts, there’s a long tradition of innovation, adaptation and collective action among American artists.
Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.
Correspondence between Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad and Britain’s Margaret Thatcher showed how differently the Muslim world and the West viewed the book.
This is the longest known journey for any stone used in a Neolithic monument.
Many clues are revealed about people’s sleep thanks to Vicar Rhys Prichard’s poetry from the 1600s.
By 43AD, when southern Britain became a Roman colony under emperor Claudius, the island was populated by speakers of several Celtic languages.
Early writers on probability had explained how the ‘house advantage’ didn’t need to be large for a gambling enterprise to profit enormously. But gamblers and gambling operators were slow to catch on.
For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
There’s more to ‘survival migration’ than an escape from poverty or war: even the middle class can feel they have to leave to survive.
Research has revealed how British otters may have been able to recover from species loss in the 1950s with the help of otters from Asia.
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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