War and violence are the last things one would associate with that 19th-century doyenne of English literature, Jane Austen. Ambles in the…
The epic defence of Chakdara is intriguing. It lasted a week (26 July-2 August 1897), involved 240 men defending an isolated post…
Could the Germans have won the First World War in 1918? Almost certainly. A quarter of a century later, the tide of war…
'Easily the bloodiest single battle fought in the war.' Mark Bowden, the journalist and acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and Killing…
What is the role of the individual in history? The collaboration between Robert E Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson changed the course…
Gervase Phillips reports on the vital role of the ‘pigeon post’ amid Passchendaele’s waterlogged crater-fields. For Major Alec Waley, the commanding officer…
As the years draw on, the events of the First World War slowly fade from living memory. Scattered across the globe, 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…
