Dr Phil Stone outlines the Richard III Society’s views regarding the king’s burial. When the ‘Looking for Richard Project’ was devised…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM has picked…
Taken from the first of our Frontline series analysing first-hand accounts of war, this box looks at what it took to be…
Taken from our feature on General Erich Ludendorff and his final desperate bid for victory on the Western Front in 1918, this…
It takes more to occupy a country than just military efficiency, argues journalist, author, and former correspondent for The Independent, Justin Huggler. Ten…
Massed Musketry was central to 18th-century tactics. Infantry training – represented in manuals like this one used in our Malplaquet feature –…
Who were the men in the line at Malplaquet? Britain’s peacetime army was very small when the War of the Spanish Succession…
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…
