On this episode of The PastCast, historian Geoffrey Parker, co-author of a major new history on the doomed campaign, explains what really…
We assesses the life and career of Britain’s best-known and most controversial military commander of the Second World War.…
This issue, we’re giving away five copies of the classic 1950 film The Men on Blu-ray/DVD, courtesy of the British Film Institute…
In this exclusive online-only competition, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to see the National Theatre's new play, Jack Absolute Flies…
This Roman frontier was built and operated by the Roman army, but its precise purpose remains shrouded in mystery.…
This issue, we’re giving away three copies of At the Gates of Rome, courtesy of Osprey Publishing. In this epic new book,…
Advertisement feature by MyHeritage The horrific events of the Holocaust tore apart countless families, many of whom were never reunited. One of…
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…
