Joe Knight looks at the life of Maria Dickin, founder of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in 1917 and creator…
Keith Robinson finds much to see at a splendid museum of military aviation on windswept Salisbury Plain. Located in Hampshire, south-west of…
Ron Field uncovers the role of Scots Americans in the war to free the slaves. In the wake of the failed Union…
Larry Collins looks at the function of theatre entertainment during the First World War and its role as unofficial recruiter, propagandist, and…
There are a select number of battlefield tours that every military history enthusiast should experience. Here we list five of the finest, most reasonably priced,…
Keith Robinson has just returned from a visit to another splendid military museum on the South Coast. The entrance to the car…
In the snowy expanse of the Norwegian countryside, a British officer and his gunner find themselves sharing a remote hunting cabin with…
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…
