Cold War

November 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the first passenger trains between London and Paris. What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours?

How the first Conservative leadership election modernised the party in the 1960s.

The Cold War forged new international relationships in which physical distance seemed overcome by ideological proximity. In North Korea, East Germany found a fellow traveller – and a fellow victim.

Uzbekistan was a product of Islamic modernism and Soviet might. Free from the latter, the nation now seeks to foreground the Young Bukharans.

America’s southern states were once strongholds for the Democratic Party. In 1952, Eisenhower decided to win them over.

East was East and West was West – until 1989. The Wall is gone, but are its Cold War demarcations still there?

Interrail gave young Europeans the freedom of the continent in the 1970s. Five decades on, people are still taking the train.

Was the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 inevitable?

The Korean War began as a conflict over territory. It would become a fight for prisoners’ asylum.