LSE Professor of International History Sönke Neitzel specialises in the history of war, especially the First and Second World Wars. In 2001 Neitzel discovered a new source for researching the Third ...

Despite becoming known as the Spanish flu, the first recorded cases were in the United States in the final year of World War I. (Explore the memorials of World War I.) A magnified view of the H1N1 ...

In 1937, near Port Dickson, Malaysia, a king cobra was caught and recorded as the longest venomous snake at 18 feet 8 inches. Taken to the London Zoo, its fate changed with World War II's outbreak.