On 28 June 1914, the 12th annual Tour de France began in Paris with the blast of a starter’s pistol. The same…
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Thought to belong to an Iron Age warrior buried over 2,000 years ago, the site includes weapons such as a sword in…
Anderson, an American history professor who has taught about the war for 20 years – ‘a Southerner teaching in South Carolina’, he…
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…
