A man of intellectual arrogance and social insecurity with a contempt for ‘blue bloods’ who dominated top ranks of the British army

The relentless focus on trade has skewed any determination to confront the terrifying echoes of the 1930s. Europeans should be much more vocal about it

Even the then pro-British Irish Times admitted to an uneasy feeling that Winston Churchill had gone a little too far

Artist Sarah Boardman says she completed portrait of US president accurately

He was shot down twice in the space of eight days, but went on to outlive all his contemporaries

James Mangold’s biopic is abundantly flawed, but will serve as a devotional tool for dedicated fans

Books by Elias Canetti, Kirsten Miller, Angeline King, Noel Russell, Ben Macintyre and Robert Schmuhl

Historical fiction is that canvas, waiting to be smudged and abused until something true emerges

Former Dutch royal prince Bernhard's early Nazi links finally confirmed by party membership card

Some disbanded members of the 13,000-strong force were forced to leave Ireland because of threats from the IRA, says Dr Brian Hughes

Retired group captain John Hemingway (104) is the only surviving Battle of Britain pilot

No figure in history has been portrayed so often in movies than the little Corsican

What would Irish politics really look like if a clever and magnetic leader were to emerge from the far right?

Changing your mind

The former Conservative politician and historian on his new documentary about the Irish Civil War

An Irishwoman’s diary: Oscar Wilde’s false teeth were kept by a hotelier who later tried to return them to the family – but they declined

Research shows taller people are more successful but leg-lengthening surgery is still a step too far

British politics today is poisoned by Brexiteers inept in the art of statecraft

Part of the challenge of this year’s centenary is to confront the silences around 1922

By the time he died at the age of 52, Childers had made powerful enemies in the pro-Treaty side