How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

Let’s start with Jordan and Egypt. A King in “Jordan” stole the Arab section of the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1920’s. And Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip through the 1960’s.

They relinquished any claim on the part of Palestine the immigrant European Jews had grabbed and turned into Israel, accepting 22% of the old colonial British Mandate of Palestine on which to ...

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Nothing is set in stone, and ultimately this would be for new rail operators to decide, but Getlink has previously mentioned Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Zurich, Marseille, Bordeaux and Lyon as ...

Sunny with a high of 48 °F (8.9 °C). Winds N at 4 to 6 mph (6.4 to 9.7 kph). Night - Partly cloudy. Winds N. The overnight low will be 39 °F (3.9 °C). Sunny today with a high of 50 °F (10 °C ...

The UK provides aid to dozens of countries across the world, with the map below ... and Palestine (£129,000,000) are among the nations expected to receive the most in British aid.

IN the University of Gottingen there is apparently the only copy of a map of the British Isles published in 1603 by John Woutneel and engraved by William Kip. It is a large sheet cut into four and ...

The edges of things - arbitrary lines drawn on a map; the borders between people; between species; between mental states. Thinking about the placers where one thing ends and become something else ...

Their mission was to investigate the causes of the Palestinian conflict and make recommendations about the future of the country as the British Mandate of Palestine came to an end. From the outset, ...

The situation in Ukraine is often fast moving and it is likely there will be times when there have been changes not reflected in the maps.