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…
Daniel Siemens’s excellent new history of the Sturmabteilungen — the SA; better known as the Nazi Party’s Stormtroopers or Brownshirts — includes…
My heart sank slightly when I was asked to review this book. I expected yet another dirge about needless casualties, poor generalship,…
Ulysses Simpson Grant is probably the most recognisable army officer in the pantheon of American history. He is, at the same time,…
When King Haakon of Norway, one of the many exiled leaders from occupied Europe in London during World War II, visited the…
Some of us still remember the time quite vividly. By the end of 1967, the United States had been involved in the…
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…
