It’s no secret that Kaiser Wilhelm II enjoyed travelling. In times of peace the head of state was rarely to be found in Potsdam or Berlin; more often he resided in one of the German spa towns or ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Queen Victoria’s oldest grandson who apparently spoke English without an accent, was holidaying near in Ilfracombe, and was spending a sunny afternoon on a local beach ...

(Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first “patriotic war.”) Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II demonized in a poster proclaiming him “The Enemy Of Humankind.” In an age before radio or ...

Fuelled by a desire to convey the truth of the rapidly changing world around them, two groups of artists — Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter — ...

The last Kaiser of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Celebration at the Windsor Hotel, 250 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland. Invitation and menu card to his 51st birthday party in Glasgow.

What do Kaiser Wilhelm II, the author Karl May and the Red Army Faction terrorists have in common? They all came to Lebanon and made their mark on the land of cedars. The project shines a light on the ...

The Kaiser Wilhelm Society existed side by side with the Max Planck Society for twelve years. It was not until 21 June 1960 at the last extraordinary General Meeting of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society that ...

Tyrants both ruled it and coveted it for themselves. During the early stages of the Great War, Kaiser Wilhelm II came frighteningly close to marching triumphantly through its streets, so much so ...

They had ambitions to grow an empire to compete with France and the UK. Kaiser Wilhelm II made a famous speech in Hamburg in 1901, saying he wanted Germany to have ‘a place in the sun.’ ...