In 1809, a 5ft 5in tall, brown-haired Irishman called John Rowland enlisted in the 95th Regiment of Foot, already by then a sharpshooting Rifle…
Taken from our Bombing For D-Day feature by Thomas Withington, this map shows the railyards in France targeted by the RAF as…
Between 1642 and 1645, London was the heart of a national revolution against absolutism. During the ‘December Days’ in late 1641, the political crisis…
A bizarre alternative Olympics was organised by Chinese Communists at a Korean War POW camp.…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM…
The opening scenes of this Japanese WWII film throw us straight into furious action. Japanese troops holding the islandof Saipan are being…
Susie Kearley speaks to one of the former cartographers at Hughenden Manor, a WWII military base whose secrets have, until recently, remained…
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…
