For many, gunpowder is associated with Guy Fawkes and the attempt to blow up parliament on 5 Nove...

At the end of WWI, Germany was demonised.The Treaty of Versailles contained a 'war guilt' claus...

The Crimean War is full of resonance - not least, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of S...

Conventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation and conc...

Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between...

How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulen...

How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulen...

Fifty years after the end of World War II Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of the most...

Britain's Finest Hour revealed as a muddle of ineptitude and propaganda. Thoroughly researched an...

Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationsh...

Britain's Finest Hour revealed as a muddle of ineptitude and propaganda. Thoroughly researched an...

Clive Ponting is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea. His Green Histo...