At first glance, it’s just an old atlas — pages yellowed, corners torn, and a cover barely holding together. But inside, the ...

Britain’s Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia “my Viet Nam”—and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson’s war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an ...

The Nyasaland Emergency in 1959 proved a decisive turning point in the history of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which from 1953 to 1963 brought together the territories of Northern ...

Donal Lamont, 92, a Roman Catholic bishop expelled from white-ruled Rhodesia in 1977 for opposing its racial policies, died Aug. 14 in Dublin, Ireland, of causes associated with aging. Ordained a ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 49, No. 2 (APRIL 2014), pp. 366-389 (24 pages) PIDE/DGS, Portugal's secret police during the New State (1932-74), had an important role to play in the country's ...

One of international diplomacy’s worst-kept secrets is that Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s oil embargo against Rhodesia has been a dismal failure. An even greater failure, however, was Britain’s ...