Some of its more unusual highlights include a specially adapted carriage used by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, a box of…
The find was made by the World of Books Group, the largest retailer of used books in the UK, who subsequently launched…
This book is beautifully written, brilliantly structured, immensely moving, and deeply disturbing. It cannot be recommended strongly enough – especially for those…
Aircraft in WWI initially played a reconnaissance role, but by the war's end was essential in the support of ground operations, attacks,…
After a sale last summer, it was feared that the set of ten ink and watercolour works would leave the country for…
In 1798, less than a decade before Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British victory and a key moment in…
Although the title says ‘written at the time’, this is not a collection of personal memoirs or diaries. Nor is it the…
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…
