Historian Christopher Browning labelled members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 ‘ordinary men’. Neither of the SS or the Wehrmacht, they were mostly…
The victims of World War II are remembered in regular commemorations, but many of the fatalities have never been recovered. Now academics…
Few today can recall much about the Jacobites, other than Bonnie Prince Charlie, ‘the Young Chevalier’, and his noble defeat at Culloden…
Most Britons are proud of their country’s role in helping to bring about victory in the Second World War. There is nothing…
It was one of the most famous armoured cruisers of the First World War, but it had remained lost for a century.…
Imagine this scene: soldiers bring out the body parts of executed men and place them outside their barracks; their loved ones arrive…
The location of the battle that supposedly ‘brought England into existence’ was always going to be hotly disputed. But archaeologists now claim…
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…
