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Leeds Irish Health and Homes (LIHH) is an organisation serving the various needs of the city’s Irish community since 1996, ...
An intriguing portrait of a black man in the uniform of a military bandsman and wearing a Waterloo medal drew strong competition after emerging at an auction in East Sussex.
In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...
The Metropolitan Police will assess whether to investigate allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity made against 10 British nationals who served in the Israeli military. The individuals ...
The body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was found in a septic tank in Kenya close to a British Army base two months after she disappeared in March 2012. Defence Secretary John Healey met Agnes ...
The British military of the 18th century was built upon a strict hierarchy of masculinity and discipline. Officers were expected to embody moral superiority and leadership, while lower-ranked soldiers ...
Few expected him to go so far. In a stunning shift in American economic policy, Donald Trump has yanked up tariffs across the board. On April 2nd, speaking from the Rose Garden of the White House ...
This is kind of, you know, back to the future approach by President Trump. He’s going back to the 19th century, ignoring that today’s economy has nothing to do with the 19th century economy.
Bengaluru: The head constables and constables of the Karnataka Police Department still wear the British-era hats. The demand to change these hats has been heard since the beginning. This has also ...
The monument represents the lowering of the Union Jack for the last time by a British sailor and its replacement by a Maltese flag hoisted by a worker. The band played the freedom anthem during ...
Casper’s ranching history goes back more than a century ... “My dad fought in the German army during the war, and after the war everything was pretty much destroyed in Germany,” he said during a ...
The garrison, he discovered, is a major military base in North Yorkshire, about 50 miles south of Newcastle. It’s the largest garrison in the British army, and home to more than 13,000 people.