What did cricket mean to troops and civilians during WWII? Crispin Andrews has scoured the MCC library to find out. Even Hitler…
How will you be commemorating the anniversary of the First World War? We are kicking off our Centenary Season – MHM’s WWI…
Continuing our regular feature profiling military charities, MHM focuses on a 96-year-old organisation dedicated to rehabilitating disabled ex-soldiers. For nearly 100 years…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM…
In an extract from his new book Fred’s War, Andrew Davidson captures the chaotic career of his medical officer grandfather Fred who…
German Cartoonists of the Nazi Era, 1933-1945 Mark Bryant looks at those elusive masters of Nazi propaganda, the German cartoonists of the…
David Flitham discovers an off-shore treasure-trove of British military heritage. Situated some 48km west-south-west of Land’s End, the Isles of Scilly are…
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…
