Bannockburn: Scotland’s crucial victory
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This year, as the nation marks the Centenary of the First World War, the Queen Alexandra Hospital Home (QAHH) in Worthing celebrates its 95th birthday. Over…
An MHM selection of some of the best events coming up over the next few months. War Music: notes from the First World War In the First…
The Lancastrians were a usurper dynasty. Their contested authority culminated in the Wars of the Roses, and later inspired Shakespeare’s history plays.…
In 1942 Sir Winston Churchill stirringly declared, ‘I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King discovers a First World War artilleryman with a revolutionary treatise in his backpack. Born in 1889 into the…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM has picked…
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…
