As a child I wanted to fly Spitfires. Not Hurricanes. Not Blenheims, Fireflys, Swordfish, Typhoons, Tempests, Wellingtons or Lancasters. And definitely not…
A German perspective on their defeat by the RAF at the Battle of Britain.…
This years War and Peace show went down a storm as classic military vehicles form across the globe descended on Kent for…
On 18 September 2005, the 65th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall…
A quick and easy guide to the Battle of Britain.…
Should the RAF be credited with victory against the Germans at the Battle of Britain or was the Royal Navy in fact…
A speech made by Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 20, 1940, including the famous line "Never in the field of human…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
