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France urged to come clean on Exocet “kill switches” that could have saved British sailors’ lives

Arms manufacturers sometimes secretly build a key switch into weapons so they can be disabled if they fall into the hands of a hostile state

Deported from France as convicts, these women helped build New Orleans

New Orleans was the place where the Mutinous Women could reinvent themselves most strikingly

Why was Boris Johnson’s Ottoman great-grandfather murdered?

“He fiercely criticized the ruling party for entering the war, and for committing ‘war crimes and massacres’ against its own Armenian citizens”

How the Greek revolution made the modern world – Analysis

The 1821 uprising against the Ottomans won staunch support from Europe’s liberals. The precedent it set for intervention still echoes in debates over Ukraine

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