In our age of cosmetic fantasy, a dramatic love story between two bespectacled art historians sounds implausible. But add in ...

Poland has revealed the details of its £2billion-valued 'Iron Curtain'-style defence system designed to fortify the country's borders against Russia and Belarus - with trenches, barricades ...

In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? From 1945 until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, citizens of Poland, Hungary, ...

As a topflight U.S. military analyst, the New York Times’s Hanson W. Baldwin usually gets a cordial welcome at the Pentagon. But last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make ...

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? Episode Two: The whole communist world celebrates Stalin’s 70th birthday in December ...

The fall of the Iron Curtain which lifted communist rule across a swathe of Europe was as swift as it was unexpected. Click on the links below to watch and read about the main events in a dramatic and ...

MINSK, September 12. /TASS/. Belarus is open to everyone who comes in peace and does not understand why Europe seeks to raise the iron curtain again, President Alexander Lukashenko said during a ...

Most homeowners will agree that nothing beats the classic, stylish look of wrought iron curtain rods. However, as you go to decorate your windows, you may discover that your wrought iron pole is ...