In 1798, less than a decade before Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British victory and a key moment in
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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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There are numerous histories of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (to give the ‘English’ Civil Wars their more-accurate title), as such,
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Christopher Warner on sporting figures in conflict
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The project removed the estimated 13,000 lethal devices that were still buried on the islands.
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The find is believed to have been part of an arms shipment that landed in Lochaber a fortnight after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s
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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
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Yet, from the outset, this is a history with a difference. Set in the aftermath of D-Day, it concerns SABU-70, a 12-man
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The site of a Royalist garrison in Nottinghamshire, Shelford Manor was besieged by Parliamentary forces on 3 November 1645.
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Holland has written a series of nine excellent campaign histories over the last few years, looking at fighting World War II in
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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
