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…
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The project removed the estimated 13,000 lethal devices that were still buried on the islands.…
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During the Second World War, Duxford was both an RAF and a United States Army Air Force station, playing an important role…
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…
