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…
The shock of the early Zeppelin raids initiated a host of unconventional countermeasures, including Professor Archibald Low’s project for a small radio-controlled…
Faces of a Queen: the Armada Portraits of Elizabeth, a free exhibition at the Queen’s House in Greenwich, opens on 13 February…
All great military tacticians plan their campaigns carefully, but only very rarely do those plans survive. Now a sketch showing Admiral Lord…
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…
