Who were the men in the line at Malplaquet? Britain’s peacetime army was very small when the War of the Spanish Succession…
Historian Adrian Greaves has had a lifetime fascination for top Nazi Rudolf Hess. We asked him to explain.…
Keith Robinson reports from France where he has been inspecting an architecturally fascinating WWI museum. North on the heights above the town…
Next year not only marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, it also commemorates the centenary of…
Each month, Military History Monthly’s ‘On Manoeuvres’ section brings you details of Britain’s finest history-themed activities, from lecture days and air shows, to…
There are a select number of battle field tours that every military history enthusiast should experience. Here we list seven of the finest, most reasonably priced,…
David Flintham visits a large military museum in Normandy and is impressed by the quality of its displays. The Operation Overlord beaches…
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…
