Coming just months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway – in which the outcome of World War II…
New images have revealed the extent of the damage to HMS Royal Oak after it was sunk during the Second World War.…
Seema Syeda recalls the journalism of William Beach Thomas - who came to regret peddling WWI 'fake news'.…
Archaeologists at the site of an ancient battle in Germany say newly uncovered artefacts suggest many of those involved were not local…
During the second half of the 17th century, France underwent a military transformation of such magnitude that in the space of a…
They were thought to have been lost in the watery depths of the vast Pacific Ocean. But now, explorers have found two…
The First World War created new experiences of pain and suffering, and had profound consequences for the shape of wars to come.…
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…
