The perhaps somewhat sensationalised title should not put one off. With great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight, Masters of Mayhem recounts the…
Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, described the desertion of the Royal Navy to Parliament in 1642 as an ‘unspeakable ill consequence…
When first approached to review Craig L Symonds’ World War II at Sea, I was somewhat ambivalent about how much value another…
David Hobbs’ carefully chosen title gives some indication of the political complexities surrounding his latest subject, as a book about the actual…
The General commanding the Bollockyboos Has strictly revised all his previous views… He keeps his battalion, untiring, approving, All moving and firing…
Close to Charing Cross station in London is the oddly named Ship and Shovell pub. Initially, this seems a strange combination, until…
The West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy had more or less terminated the slave trade on the West African coast by…
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…
